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Section 148 in THE FINANCE ACT, 2021 [Entire Act]
Radhasoami Satsang, Saomi Bagh,Agra vs Commissioner Of Income Tax on 15 November, 1991
"19. We are aware that each assessment year is separate and
distinct and principle of res judicata does not apply to
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proceedings for subsequent or other years. However, the
decision on an issue or question though not binding should be
followed and not ignored unless there are good and sufficient
reasons to take a different view. Thus, it was/is possible for the
Assessing Officer to depart from the finding or a decision in
one year as it is final and conclusive only in relation to a
particular year for which it is made but as observed in
Radhasoami Satsang v. CIT (1992) 193 ITR 321 (SC), when a
fundamental aspect pervading through different assessment
years has been found as a fact in one way or the other, it would
inappropriate to allow the position to be changed in a
subsequent year particularly when the said finding has been
accepted. The said principle is also based upon the rules of
certainty and consistency that a decision taken after due
application of mind should be followed consistently as this
lead to certainty, unless there are valid and good reasons for
deviating and not accepting the earlier decision."
National Petroleum Construction ... vs Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax ... on 29 July, 2022
19. In order to appreciate what the Supreme Court held in National
Petroleum, it would be apposite to notice the more elaborate
discussion which appears in the judgment of this Court in National
Petroleum Con. Co. v. Deputy CIT8, the relevant parts whereof are
extracted hereunder:-
Raymond Woollen Mills Ltd. vs Income-Tax Officer And Ors. on 17 December, 1997
"17. Contrary to the above, it had been the consistent stand of the
present writ petitioners that no PE had existed in the years in
question. It is in the aforesaid light that we would have to evaluate
and examine whether the findings as recorded in the course of the
2007 or 2019 survey could have been blindly applied and adopted,
extrapolated and read as being an accurate recordal of facts as they
obtained in the AYs in question. It was conceded before us by the
respondents that the reasons as recorded in support of the formation
of opinion that income had escaped assessment had not alluded to
any facts specific to AYs' 2013-14 to 2017-18. Despite repeated
queries Mr. Bhatia who represented the respondents failed to draw
our attention to any facet or fact pertaining to the AYs' in question
and which could have been read as demonstrative of an application
of mind to the facts that prevailed or obtained in the years in
question and thus justified a reassessment action being validly
initiated. In fact, as we go through those reasons, it becomes more
than apparent that the AO has merely proceeded to adopt and
reiterate what was found in the course of the survey undertaken in
2007 and 2019 read alongside the judgment of this Court rendered in
GE Energy. According to Mr. Bhatia, in light of the judgment of this
Court in GE Energy, the AO was justified in proceeding on the
"assumption" that facts had remained unchanged and that the
business model had remained unaltered. Learned counsel in this
respect also sought to draw sustenance from the decision of the
Supreme Court in Raymond Woollen Mills Ltd. v ITO6 and to the
following passages as appearing therein:-
The New Jehangir Vakil Mills Ltd vs The Commissioner Of Income-Tax, ... on 12 May, 1959
New Jehangir Vakil Mills Co. Ltd v. CIT (1963) 49 ITR (SC)
137]. "It is well settled that in matters of taxation there is no
question of res judicata because each year's assessment is final
only for that year and does not govern later years, because it
determines only the tax for a particular period".
Installment Supply (P.) Ltd. And ... vs The Union Of India And Others on 2 May, 1961
[Ref:
Installment Supply P. Ltd. v. Union of India [1962] AIR 1962
SC 53 (Constitution Bench)].
Dwarkadas Kesardeo Morarka vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax, Central ... on 25 January, 1961
21. The Court also takes note of the succinct enunciation of this
legal principle in Dwarkadas Kesardeo Morarka v Commissioner
of Income Tax, Central10 where the Supreme Court had held as
under:-