Similarly Hon'ble ITAT Cochin Bench in case
of Thomas Eapen Vs. ITO (2020) 180 ITD 741 has held that assessee
having offered his income to tax under sec. 44AD which has been
accepted by the AO without raising any doubt regarding the gross
receipts/turnover of the assessee, no addition under ss. 68 and 69A
could be made on account of unexplained cash deposits in the
assessee's bank account. Following these decisions the Ld. PCIT
dropped the proceedings u/s 263 in case of Hari Om Gupta vide order
dt. 20.03.2024 (PB 42-44) and in case of Jyoti vide order dt.
15.03.2024 (PB 45-49). Thus when in similar other cases proceedings
u/s 263 have been dropped, order passed in the case of assessee be
quashed.
7.3 Further, the Cochin Bench of the Tribunal in the case of
Thomas Eapen v. ITO (supra), while dealing the case of an
assessee who has declared the income of 8% under section
44AD of the I.T.Act by relying on the above Chandigarh Bench
order, has held as follows. - "Now, applying the above to the
facts of the present case, we observe that the Assessing
Officer, for making the impugned addition has stated that there
was total deposit of Rs.94,04,685/- and the assessee has only
explained Rs.66,10,379/- and Rs.27,94,306/-, being balance
unexplained, which is a totally wrong premise. If the income
component is estimated, how the expenditure component on the
basis of said income can be considered to have been `actually
incurred' and it is only presumption that an amount of 92% of
gross receipts was incurred by the assessee as expenditure.
We must also observe here that this is not a case, where the
Assessing Officer has doubted the gross receipts or gross
turnover of the assessee. In fact, accepting the same,
estimating income @ 8% on the same at presumptive rate, he
preferred to make further addition under section 68/69A of the
Act. The argument of the learned DR that the turnover of the
assessee has been doubted by the Assessing Officer is totally
ill-found, in view of the same."
11. Ld counsel also referred to the decision of ITAT Cochin Bench in the
case of Thomas Eapen vs ITO, (2020) 113 taxmann.com 268 (Coch),
wherein, it was held that where the assessee, a small trader in medicines
falling under section 44AD, offered income on presumptive taxation basis,
provisions of section 69A could not be applied to make addition in respect
of undisclosed cash credits found in assessee's bank account. The benefit
of this is also available in favour of the assessee in the present case.