Income Tax Appellate Tribunal - Kolkata
M/S Cicago Commodities Private Limited ... vs D.C.I.T.,Circle-1(1), Kolkata on 9 February, 2023
IN THE INCOME TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL "A" BENCH KOLKATA
BEFORE SHRI SANJAY GARG, JUDICIAL MEMBER
AND SHRI GIRISH AGRAWAL, ACCOUNTANT MEMBER
ITA No.1817/Kol/2019
Assessment Year: 2014-15
M/s. CICAGO COMMODITIES Deputy Commissioner of
PRIVATE LIMITED, Income-Tax, Circle-1(1),
Office no. 3A, 7th floor, Gate Kolkata.
Vs.
No. 2, Poddar Court, 18,
Rabindra Sarani, Kolkata-
700001.
(PAN: AACCC0176A)
(Appellant) (Respondent)
Present for:
Appellant by : Shri B. Bhushan, AR
Respondent by : Shri Vijay Kumar, Addl. CIT, Sr. DR
Date of Hearing : 23.11.2022
Date of Pronouncement : 09.02.2023
ORDER
PER GIRISH AGRAWAL, ACCOUNTANT MEMBER:
This appeal filed by the assessee is against the order of Ld. CIT(A)-10, Kolkata vide Appeal No. 153/CIT(A)-10/Cir-1(1)/2014- 15/2018-19/Kol dated 02.04.2019 passed against the assessment order by DCIT, Circle-1(1), Kolkata u/s. 143(3) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act"), dated 26.12.2016.
2. Grounds raised by the assessee are reproduced as under:
"1 The Learned CIT(A) is not justified in treating the sum of Rs.2,36,94,753/- as bogus loss believing on report of investigation conducted by Investigation Wing, Kolkata Via EFS module of ITD which find out that these are penny stock. As regards sale of demated 2 ITA No.1817/Kol/2019 M/s. CICAGO Commodities Pvt. Ltd., AY 2014-15 shares, the sales were made in electronic plat forms of recognized stock exchanges through reputed brokers with whom various assessee are maintaining trading account. The assessee paid STT on all the transactions. The moment sales were effected, the demat accounts were debited. It is submitted for kind consideration that sale through a recognized stock exchange which were electronically made cannot be manipulated. So also debit and credit entries in the Demat account which were maintained by reputed DPs.
It may further be mentioned here that all the sale transactions were done through exchanges, STT was' paid, sale proceeds were realized by account payee draft/cheque. Therefore, merely because the stocks were of low value, per se, would not lead to a conclusion that the transactions were not genuine. It is submitted that suspicion, however, strong cannot take the place of proof as held by the Apex Court in many cases.
The AO has not brought out any clear cut material to show that the assessee was involved in price manipulation except relying on presumption. Nothing cogent and concrete have been mentioned in the assessment order to indicate as to how the appellant was in league with the brokers in the transaction of specific scrips. Even in course of recording the statements of these brokers, no question was put to elicit any answer. Assessee maintains all the records relating to purchase and sale of scrips. The bank details of purchase and sale are available on the bank statement. Assessee maintains contract Note of purchase and sell of scrips. Mere on the basis of investigation done by DIT (Inv.) , Kolkata cannot be relied that assessee has claims the bogus loss So above facts clarifies that loss earned through the scrips Global Securities turbotech and Dhenubuildcon should not be treated bogus and added back to the income. Mere on the basis of investigation done by Investigation Wing, Kolkata cannot be relied that assessee has claims the bogus loss.
2. The Ld. CIT(A) is not correct in disallowing investment u/s. 14A r w rule 8DD. Disallowance under section 14A of the Act should not be made when there is no exempt income earned by the assessee during the relevant previous year."
3. Brief facts of the case are that assessee is a Non- Banking Finance company (NBFC) providing financial services, trading in shares, securities and commodities. It filed its return on 30.11.2014 reporting total income of Rs.41,69,256/-. Its case was selected for scrutiny through CASS for which statutory notices were served on the assessee which we re complied with.
3 ITA No.1817/Kol/2019M/s. CICAGO Commodities Pvt. Ltd., AY 2014-15 3.1. During the assessment proceedings, Ld. AO noted that assessee has transacted in the share s of three companies viz., Dhenu Buildcon, Turbotech & Global Securities which have been claime d to have been penny stock companies by the Ld. AO. In the year under consideration, assessee had done share trading in the above three scrips, details of which is tabulate d below:
Sl. Name of Date of No. of Total Date of sale No. of Total Loss No. Scrip purchase share amount share amount 1 Dhenu 20.03.2013 13000 989325 07.10.2013 13000 65130 924195 Buildcon
2. Turbotech 11.03.2013 830 3634570 05.03.2014 30011 831304.7 19824471 13.03.2013 1400 621446 06.03.2014 17639 478898.9 14.03.2013 1650 737951 15.03.2013 4400 1961916 18.03.2013 3150 1396338 19.03.2013 4750 2087266 20.03.2013 6850 2908371 21.03.2013 4250 1894655 25.03.2013 4200 1900933 26.03.2013 4300 1894043 28.03.2013 4600 2097186
3. Global 13.03.2013 11800 1649404 02.10.2013 375 3618.75 2828203 Securities 14.03.2013 9500 13324455 12.11.2013 2900 26970 20.11.2013 2000 15900 21.11.2013 1650 12474 22.11.2013 2990 21498.1 25.11.2013 100 682 26.11.2013 5300 36040 27.11.2013 2500 15450 28.11.2013 2600 15288 28.11.2013 885 5734.8 3.2. On the above share trading, Ld. AO had received a report on tax evasion through penny stocks, from the Investigation Wing, Kolkata via EFS Model of ITD for which it was reported that these three scrips have been used for accommodation entry by booking long term capital gain/loss.
Being not satisfied with the explanation offered by the assessee, Ld. AO completed the assessment by disallowing the loss on trading of these scrips and added it back to the total income of the assessee. The total disallowance of loss in this respect is of Rs.2,35,76,869/-. While adding this, Ld. AO held that transaction relate to trading in these three 4 ITA No.1817/Kol/2019 M/s. CICAGO Commodities Pvt. Ltd., AY 2014-15 scrips of Dhenu Buildcon Infra Ltd., Global Securities Ltd. and Turbotech Engineering Ltd. are bogus, coloured and not genuine . He further held that these have been done to accommodate the unaccounted money of the assessee in the regular books of accounts and facilitate in the scheme of accommodation entry through penny stock. Aggrieved, assessee we nt in appeal before the Ld. CIT(A), who found no infirmity in the order of the Ld. AO and confirmed, holding of claim of loss to be bogus and thus, dismissed the ground taken in this respe ct. Aggrie ved, assessee is in appeal be fore the Tribunal.
4. We have heard the rival contentions and carefully gone through the material available on re cord. We find that there are large number of assessees, who have transacted with equity shares of the above named three scrips and claimed be nefits under the provisions of the Act. Apart from these scrips, there are other scrips also in Kolkata, who were found to be penny stock and transactions on papers only. Hon'ble Calcutta High Court has recently considered this aspe ct in its judgment in the case of Swati Bajaj & Others (2022) 139, taxmann.com 352(Cal.). In a number of appeals, Coordinate bench of ITAT, Kolkata has rejected the claim of the assessees, where the assessee transacted in the shares of such companies. All these transactions have been held as bogus by the Hon'ble Jurisdictional High Court. Therefore, respectfully following the decision of the Hon'ble Calcutta High Court, we affirm the view taken by the Revenue Authorities who have re jected the claim of the assessee and 5 ITA No.1817/Kol/2019 M/s. CICAGO Commodities Pvt. Ltd., AY 2014-15 made the additions. We do not find any merit in this appeal. Accordingly, it is dismissed.
5. In the result, appe al of the assessee is dismissed.
Order is pronounced in the open court on 09 t h February, 2023.
Sd/- Sd/-
(Sanjay Garg) (Girish Agrawal)
Judicial Member Accountant Member
Dated: 09 t h February, 2023
JD, Sr. P.S.
Copy to:
1. The Appellant:
2. The Respondent:.
3. CIT(A)-10, Kolkata.
4. The Pr. CIT, , Kolkata
5. DR, ITAT, Kolkata Bench, Kolkata
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By Order
Assistant Registrar
ITAT, Kolkata Benches, Kolkata