Validity of CBDT circular - binding nature - The right that has ...

CBDT Circular's Binding Nature Questioned; 2009 Rights Unchangeable by 2013 Clarification; Timing Suggests Influential Challenges.

January 6, 2020

Case Laws     Income Tax     HC

Validity of CBDT circular - binding nature - The right that has enured to the parties in 2009 cannot be modified by a Clarification issued by the Board, three years thereafter. It appears to me quite possible that the long silence of the Board followed by the sudden Clarification issued in 2013 might itself be inspired by challenges similar to the one before me now, perhaps, even the present one.

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