Shri Ram Swarup Memorial Trust, ... vs Department Of Income Tax
- CitationITA No. 191/CHD/2015
Ratio decidendi
The rule this decision rests on
The Tribunal, deciding that the Revenue's appeal fails, holds that where the assessee did not claim depreciation in its original return and the Assessing Officer did not discuss the claim, the first appellate authority may admit the claim as an additional ground and allow it, since depreciation is a statutory claim, the Revenue has not challenged the admission of that ground, and the appellate authority follows the Punjab and Haryana High Court's decision in CIT v. Market Committee, Pipli on that point. The Tribunal further holds that an appellate authority which allows a claim following the order of the preceding assessment year, where the same issue was decided in the assessee's favour on the same reasoning, has correctly applied that earlier decision, and that the Revenue's appeal against such an order, unaccompanied by any different reason, cannot succeed.
Written by Miss Lucy from the judgment below, not taken from a headnote.
Judgment
As delivered
O R D E R
PER BHAVNESH SAINI,JM
This appeal by revenue is directed against the order of ld.
CIT(Appeals), Panchkula dated 31.12.2014 for assessment year
2009-10 challenging the order of ld. CI T(Appeals) in allowing
depreciation which was not claimed in the original return of
income.
2. Briefly the facts of the case are that in the original return,
the assessee did not claim the depreciation as application of
income but at the assessment stage, depreciation was claimed in
view of the judgement of the Hon'ble Punjab & Haryana High
Court in the case of CI T Vs Market Committee, Pipli 45 DTR 381
(P&H). The Assessing Officer did not discuss this issue in the 2
assessment order. The details of the depreciation were,
however, available on record. Therefore, additional ground was
raised before ld. CIT(Appeals) on which report from the
Assessing Officer was also called for in which Assessing Officer
stated that in the original return, no claim of depreciation has
been made and even no revised return has been filed.
3. The ld. CIT(Appeals), considering the request of additional
ground of appeal, admitted the same for the purpose of decision
and also noted that depreciation is a statutory claim which has
been allowed to the assessee in earlier year also and his
predecessor in assessment year 2008-09 vide order dated
02.12.2010 following the above decision of the Hon'ble Punjab &
Haryana High Court, allowed the claim of assessee. The ld.
CIT(Appeals), therefore, following the order of preceding
assessment year 2008-09, directed the Assessing Officer to allow
claim of depreciation.
4. We have heard ld. DR, However, none is present on behalf
of the assessee despite notifying the date of hearing.
Considering the above facts, we do not find any merit in the
appeal of the revenue. The revenue has not challenged the
order of the ld. CIT(Appeals) in admitting additional ground of
appeal claiming the depreciation. The ld. CIT(Appeals),
therefore, correctly following the order of the preceding
assessment year 2008-09, allowed the claim of depreciation. No
different reason has been assigned and that ld. CIT(Appeals)
followed the decision of the Hon'ble Punjab & Haryana High
Court in the case of Market Committee, Pipli (supra) for the 3
purpose of allowing the claim of depreciation.
5. In view of the above, we do not find any merit in the
departmental appeal and the same is accordingly, dismissed.
6. In the result, appeal of the revenue is dismissed.
Order pronounced in the Open Court on 30 t h April,2015.
Sd/- Sd/-
(T.R.SOOD) (BHAVNESH SAINI) ACCOUNTANT MEMBER JUDICIAL MEMBER
Dated: 30 t h April,2015. 'Poonam' Copy to:
The Appellant, The Respondent, The CI T(A), The CI T,DR
Assistant Registrar, I TAT Chandigarh
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