ACIT, Circle-34, Kolkata vs. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata
In the result, all the grounds filed by the Revenue in all the four years are hereby dismissed
ITA 1001/KOL/2024[2021-22]Status: DisposedITAT Kolkata18 Nov 2024AY 2021-22
Bench: proceeding for adjudicating this matter, it is noticed that the 4 appeals filed by the Department are barred by limitation, comprising of delay ranging from 119 days to 129 days. The application for said condonation of delay are almost identically worded. For the sake of convenience, the application for AY 2018-19 is extracted as under: “1. Order of CIT (A) was received in the office of the PCIT-5, Kolkata on 23.01.2024.
Section 148A
…ity of the gratuity fund as approved. 6 I.T.A. Nos. 981, 999, 1000 & 1001/Kol/2024 CO Nos. 10-13/Kol/2024 Syama Prasad Mukerjee Port, Kolkata 7. Our attention has been drawn to a decision of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in CIT v. Super Spg. Mills Lad [1987] 166 ITR 518. In that case also the ITO restricted the claim of the assessee towards contribution to the gratuity fund to 819 per cent but the Commissioner (Appeals) and the Tribunal held that it was not for the ITO to sit in judgment over the approval granted by the Commissioner. It has been held that once approval is accorded by the Commissioner, it is bind…