SPL Industries Ltd, New Delhi V. DCIT, Circle-24(1), New Delhi

ITA 2829/DEL/2022

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SPL Industries Ltd filed an appeal against the order of the CIT(A), National Faceless Appeal Centre, which upheld the disallowance made by the AO under section 36(1)(va) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The disallowance pertained to the alleged delay in payment of employees' contributions to provident fund and ESI for the assessment year 2018-19. The assessee sought to submit additional evidence during the appeal, which was admitted by the Tribunal as it was deemed crucial and relevant to the case. The Tribunal's decision to allow the appeal for statistical purposes and remand the case back to the AO underscores the importance of the newly submitted evidence in potentially altering the outcome of the initial assessment.

• Counselvise Citation: [2023] 140 COUNSELVISE.COM (IT) 131277 (ITAT-DELHI)
• Duration Of Justice: 7 month(s) 14 day(s)
• Appeal Type: Income Tax Appeal
• Pronouncement Date: 13-07-2023
• Appeal Filed By: Assessee
• Order Result: Allowed
• Bench Allotted: SMC
• Next Hearing Date: 10-05-2023
• Assessment Year: 2018-2019
• Appeal Filed On: 29-11-2022
• Laws Referred To: Income Tax Act, 1961
• Result in Favour of: Assessee
• Court: TRIBUNAL
• Assessee Lawyers: RAKESH GUPTA
• Keywords: Additional evidence

Judgement Text

Page | 1 INCOME TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL DELHI BENCH “SMC”: NEW DELHI BEFORE Shri C.M. Garg, Judicial Member ITA No. 2829/Del/2022 (Assessment Year: 2018-19) SPL Industries Ltd, Office No202, 2 nd Floor, Vikramadiyta Tower, Alaknand Market, Kalkaji, South Delhi Vs. DCIT, Circle-24(1), New Delhi (Appellant) (Respondent) PAN: AAACS0343R Assessee by : Dr. Rakesh Gupta, Adv Sh. Deepesh Garg, Adv Sh. Shrey Jain, Adv Revenue by: Sh. Om Parkash, Sr. DR Date of Hearing 11/05/2023 Date of pronouncement 14/07/2023 O R D E R 1. This is an appeal filed by the assessee against the order of the ld CIT(A), National Faceless Appeal Centre (NFAC) dated 25.10.2022 for AY 2018-19. Application of assessee under Rule 29 of the Income Tax Rules, 1963 2. The ld counsel of assessee submitted that the assessee seeks to file some additional evidence which is crucial for adjudication of assessee’s appeal and goes to the root of the matter, therefore, the assessee may kindly be allowed to submit additional evidence now for the first time before the Tribunal. In the application, it has been stated that as the assessee was not aware of the significance of these evidences at that point of time and it was only when the assessee contacted Dr. Rakesh Gupta for representing the appeal the assessee realized the importance of these evidence and their relevance to the ITA No. 2829/Del/2022 SPL Industries Ltd Page | 2 grievance of the assessee. Therefore, the additional evidence may kindly be admitted for consideration and adjudication of the appeal of the assessee. 3. The ld Sr. DR opposed to the admission of the additional evidence however, he did not controvert that the additional evidence sought to be admitted by the assessee are relevant to the grievance of the assessee and goes to the root of the matter. 4. On careful consideration of the above submissions, I note that the present case pertains to upholding of disallowance made by the AO u/s 36(1)(va) of the Act wherein, the assessee seeks to establish that there was no delay on the part of the assessee in payment of employee’s contribution to provident fund and ESI. From the application under consideration, I note that the assessee wants to submit copy of screen shot of the website of EPF Challan Portal showing due date for remittance of EPF for the May 2017, copy of e-mail sent by the assessee to EPF department which are relevant for the adjudication of the grievance of the assessee. Therefore, additional evidence submitted by the assessee is admitted for consideration. Application of the assessee is allowed. 5. Since, in the earlier part of this order, I have admitted additional evidence of the assessee which are for the first time produced before the Tribunal, therefore, after admission of additional evidence the matter is restored back to the file of the AO for framing afresh assessment order after taking into consideration the additional evidence and explanation of the assessee and after allowing due opportunity of hearing to the assessee. Needless to say that the AO shall reframe the assessment order without being influenced with the earlier assessment order and first appellate order. ITA No. 2829/Del/2022 SPL Industries Ltd Page | 3 6. In the result, the appeal of the assessee is allowed for statistical purposes. Order pronounced in the open court on 14/07/2023. -Sd/- (C. M. GARG) JUDICIAL MEMBER Dated: 14/07/2023 A K Keot Copy forwarded to 1. Applicant 2. Respondent 3. CIT 4. CIT (A) 5. DR:ITAT ASSISTANT REGISTRAR ITAT, New Delhi