Addl. CIT v. Jay Engineering Works Ltd.

113 ITR 389High Court1978#1225 most cited

What is Addl. CIT v. Jay Engineering Works Ltd. authority for?

The Assessing Officer is competent to accept or draw proper inferences from auditors' reports. When books of accounts are audited by chartered accountants and there is no material on record to show they are unreliable, no addition challenging deductions supported by those books is tenable.

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Addl. CIT v. Jay Engineering Works Ltd. · 113 ITR 389 · section 143(3) · audited books of accounts · reliability of accounts · Assessing Officer powers · additions without material · burden of proof · auditors' report · income tax assessment · inference from audit

Issues it is cited on

Judgments citing Addl. CIT v. Jay Engineering Works Ltd.

Gravity Merchandise Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata vs. ACIT, Central Circle 4(2), Kolkata

In the result, appeal of the assessee is dismissed

ITA 114/KOL/2025[2016-17]Status: DisposedITAT Kolkata02 Jul 2025AY 2016-17

Bench: Shri George Mathanआयकर अपील सं/Ita No.114/Kol/2025 (नििाारण वर्ा / Assessment Year :2016-2017) Gravity Merchandise Private Limited Vs Acit, Central Circle-4(2), Kolkata Alom House, 7B, Pretoria Street, Kolkata-700071 Pan No. :Aabcg 0623 M (अपीलार्थी /Appellant) (प्रत्यर्थी / Respondent) .. : Shri A.K.Tibrewal, Fca नििााररती की ओर से /Assessee By : Shri S.B. Chakraborthy, Addl. Cit-Sr.Dr राजस्व की ओर से /Revenue By सुनवाई की तारीख / Date Of Hearing : 02/07/2025 घोषणा की तारीख/Date Of Pronouncement : 02/07/2025

For Appellant: Shri S.B. Chakraborthy, Addl. CIT-Sr.DR
Section 227(2)

…the shares which were sold by the assessee during the impugned assessment year and loss of Rs.34,93,533/- claimed. The ld. AR further placed reliance on the decision of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of Jay Engineering Works Ltd., reported in [1978] 113 ITR 389 (Delhi), wherein the Hon’ble High Court has held as follows :- 6. In the present case, the relevant books of account in which detailed information as to the expenses which were claimed as deductions for the assessment years 1962-63 and 1963-64 are destroyed by fire in November, 1962. Under the Indian Evidence Act secondary evidence of the content…

Lovely Promoters Private Limited, Kolkata vs. ACIT, Central Circle, Ajmer

In the result, the appeal filed by the assessee is allowed

ITA 770/JPR/2023[2013-14]Status: DisposedITAT Jaipur08 Feb 2024AY 2013-14

Bench: him regarding non mentioning of Document Identification Number (DIN) in the body of the order u/s. 127 of the Act dated 08-09-2021 and various other technical pleas raised in grounds of appeal regarding validity of notice u/s. 148 of the Act, thereby appellate order passed by the CIT(A) is non-speaking order and deserves to be quashed. 4. On the facts and in circumstances of the case and in law, the AO erred in issuing notice u/s. 148 of the Act as it was a search related case u/s. 132 r/w

For Appellant: Shri Mayank Taparia (Adv.)For Respondent: Shri A.S. Nehra (Addl.CIT) a
Section 127Section 127(1)Section 132Section 147Section 148Section 148ASection 151Section 153C

…dings. 6.12 The Supreme Court in the case of Indian & Eastern Newspaper Society v CIT 119 ITR 996 held that, the proceedings for assessment before the Assessing Officer are quasi-judicial in character. The Delhi High Court in Addl. CIT v. Jay Engg. Works Ltd. 113 ITR 389 held that: While the word 'evidence may recall the oral and documentary evidence as may be admissible under the Indian Evidence Act, the use of the word material shows that the ITO not being a court can rely upon material which may not be strictly evidence admissible under the Indian Evidence Act for the purpose of making an order of assessment.…