TMI BlogStandard Operating Procedure (SOP) for making application for recomputation of total income of a co-operative society engaged in the business of manufacture of sugar, as provided for in the sub-section (19) of section 155 of the Income-tax Act, 1961X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f section 155 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - reg. Sugar factories operating in the co-operative sectors in certain States of India pay to sugarcane growers a final amount, often referred to as Final Cane Price (FCP) which is over and above the Statutory Minimum Price (SMP) fixed by the Central Government under the Sugarcane Control Order, 1996. 2. The payment of FCP by the co-operative sugar factories over and above the SMP for purchase of sugarcane had resulted into tax litigation. The co-operative sugar factories were claiming this excess payment as business expenditure whereas the same has been disallowed in the assessment on the ground that the excess price paid for purchase of sugar cane over and above SMP is in the nature of app ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... assessee in this regard, recompute the total income of such assessee for such previous year. The Assessing Officer shall allow such deduction to the extent such expenditure is incurred at a price which is equal to or less than the price fixed or approved by the Government for that previous year. Also, it provides that the provisions of section 154 of the Act shall, so far as may be, apply thereto, and the period of four years specified in sub-section (7) of said section 154 shall be reckoned from the end of previous year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2022. 5. In order to standardize the manner of filing application to the Jurisdictional Assessing Officer under sub-section (19) of section 155 of the Act and its disposal by th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... vii) Any other document as considered necessary by the Jurisdictional Assessing Officer for the purposes of recomputation of total income under sub-section (19) of section 155 of the Act. (d) The Jurisdictional Assessing Officer shall recompute the total income of such co-operative society under the provisions of sub-section (19) of section 155 read with section 154 of the Act. Further, the rectification under sub-section (19) of section 155 r.w.s. 154 of the Act can only be made till 31.03.2027. (e) The Jurisdictional Assessing Officer shall pass an order under s. 155(19) r.w.s. 154 of the Act within a period of six months from the end of the month in which the application is received by him. 6. Hindi version to fol ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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