Ito, Jaipur vs Bajaj Udyog, Jaipur on 9 August, 2019
Commissioner of Income Tax vs. Gauranginiben S Shobhan Indl.,
Hon'ble Gujarat High Court held that "Coming to the question of
reference to DVO for ascertaining the fair market value as on
1.4.1981 also, we find that such reference was not competent, we
have noticed that prior to the amendment in section 55A with effect
from 1.7.2012 in a case, the value of the asset claimed by the
assessee is in accordance with the estimate made by the Registered
Valuer, if the Assessing Officer was of the opinion that the value so
claimed was less than its fair market value as on 1.4.1981. It would
not be the case of the Assessing Officer that the value of the asset
shown as on 1.4.1981 was less than the fair market value. Such
clause, therefore, as it stood at the relevant time, had no application
to the valuation as on 1.4.1981. We are conscious that with effect
from 1.7.2012, the expression now used in clause (a) of section 55A
is "is at variance with its fair market value". The situation may,
therefore, be different after 1.7.2012.