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2015 (12) TMI 1686

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..... nfirming the addition of Rs. 4,66,300/- as undisclosed business income when admittedly no investment was found to have been made against four bills found in the course of survey and even otherwise no amount should have been added since the AO himself has held that the entire purchases made on four different dates was sold, and therefore there was no question of any investment for the purchase. 3. For that even otherwise no addition was called for since the assessee purchased the material on different dates and as such the sale price received was available for making payments, if any." 3. The Assessee is an individual. He carries on the business as wholesaler of grocery items under the trade name "Shib Shankar Trading Co.". There was a Su .....

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..... of the Assessee and he held as follows: "The submission of the AR is not at all acceptable. The assessee had issued the authorization letter to the deriver to take the delivery of goods from the supplier, Truck No. also mentioned therein. Photo copies of the relevant portion of authorization letter issued to the driver to take delivery of goods, delivery challan and Purchase invoice/bills/cash/credit memos have been placed on record. It is crystal clear that assessee has purchased goods of worth Rs. 466300/- during the F.Y. 2007-08. In light of the above discussion it is concluded that the assessee has undisclosed purchase of Rs. 466300/- has been made from undisclosed business income during the financial year 2007-08. Therefore, the sum .....

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..... ent i.e., gross profit declared by the Assessee in business for the relevant AY viz., 5% should be added to the total income of the Assessee. The learned DR relied on the order of the AO and CIT(A). 7. We have considered the rival submissions. The AO refused to believe the plea of the Assessee that the goods covered by the invoice and delivery challans were in fact not purchases actually made by the Assessee and were only pro-forma invoices for the reason that there were authorization letter to truck driver to take delivery of goods from the supplier and truck numbers had also been mentioned therein. We are of the view that in the light of the plea raised by the Assessee regarding non receipt of goods from the supplier and that the invoice .....

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..... ck register maintained which is not in dispute. 5. For that the Ld. CIT(A) erred in maintaining the addition by confirming the view of tile AO giving much weight to the statement submitted to the bank for availing cash credit on hypothecation basis when such statements used to be submitted long after the expiry of the relevant month, never subjected to the inspection by the banking authorities and the actual stock was fully verified from the stock register maintained and also found correct in accordance with the stock register even at the time of survey which took place a few days back before the end of the previous year." 9. During the course of scrutiny proceedings, it was noticed that the assessee has submitted the stock statement as .....

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..... oint for computing value of closing stock because the said figure given to the bank was not correct and was only for the purpose of availing of bank credit stock is always shown at higher figure." 11. The AO did not accept the above explanation put forward in respect of the aforesaid discrepancy. He was of the view that in the light of the facts and circumstances, discrepancy of closing stock worth Rs. 54,22,619/- was not disclosed by the assessee in his books of accounts for the A.Y. 2008-09. Therefore, the aforesaid discrepancy stock of Rs. 54,22,619/- was treated as 'undisclosed stock' and was added to the total income of the assessee under the had 'Business Income' for the assessment year 2008-09. 12. On appeal by the Assessee, the CI .....

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..... ing the issue the discrepancy give rise to the starting point of the Investigaiton-Vide para 6.8 3. (10 to 12) M/s. Das Industries 303 ITR 199 Bank never physically verified the stock. 4. (13 to 16) M/s. Devi Dayal Rice Mills 75 TTJ 24 Amritsar Addition not justified when no apparent mistake was noticed in the bank account and bank never verified physical stock. 5. (17 to 22) M/.s. Industrial Associates ITA No.309/K/2006 - 15. The learned DR relied on the order of the AO/CIT(A). 16. We have given a careful consideration to the rival submissions. It is not in dispute before us that at the time of survey physical verification of stock was made and it tallied with the stock as per books of accounts maintained by the Assessee. The .....

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