Pr. Commissioner of Income-tax, Surat I v. Ganga Fashion Pvt. Ltd
[Citation -2017-LL-0926-7]

Citation 2017-LL-0926-7
Appellant Name Pr. Commissioner of Income-tax, Surat I
Respondent Name Ganga Fashion Pvt. Ltd.
Court HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
Relevant Act Income-tax
Date of Order 26/09/2017
Judgment View Judgment
Keyword Tags question of law • labour charge
Bot Summary: Revenue is in appeal against the judgment of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal dated 23.12.2016 raising following question for our consideration: Whether on facts and circumstances of the case and in law, the Appellate Tribunal is justified in deleting the addition of Rs.1,87,39,810/ made by the Assessing Officer on account of inflated labour charges in spite of the failure on the part of the assessee to furnish satisfactory explanation/evidences as regards to increase of almost six times in labour charges as compared to A.Y. 2006 07 whereas activity and production of the assessee company remained almost same 2. From the impugned judgment of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, we notice that the Tribunal had relied on its earlier judgment in case of this very Page 1 of 2 HC-NIC Page 1 of 2 Created On Tue Oct 31 10:04:04 IST 2017 O/TAXAP/762/2017 ORDER assessee. Issues pertain to labour charges and ultimate Gross Profit ratio declared by the assessee for the assessment year 2007 2008. After hearing the assessee rejected the books of accounts and disallowed the part of the labour charges. CIT(Appeals) as well as the Tribunal both found that there was no justification in doing so. The Tribunal while confirming the view of the CIT(Appeals) noted that eventually the assessee company had achieved better result by reshuffling the labour force and the profit ratio of the year under consideration had improved as compared to earlier years. Commissioner(Appeals) as well as the Tribunal having concurrently come to factual findings, no question of law arises.


O/TAXAP/762/2017 ORDER IN HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD TAX APPEAL NO. 762 of 2017 PR. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, SURAT I Appellant(s) Versus M/S. GANGA FASHION PVT. LTD. Opponent(s) Appearance: MRS MAUNA M BHATT, ADVOCATE for Appellant(s) No. 1 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI and HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE BIREN VAISHNAV Date : 26/09/2017 ORAL ORDER (PER : HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI) 1. Revenue is in appeal against judgment of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal dated 23.12.2016 raising following question for our consideration: Whether on facts and circumstances of case and in law, Appellate Tribunal is justified in deleting addition of Rs.1,87,39,810/ made by Assessing Officer on account of inflated labour charges in spite of failure on part of assessee to furnish satisfactory explanation/evidences as regards to increase of almost six times in labour charges as compared to A.Y. 2006 07 whereas activity and production of assessee company remained almost same? 2. From impugned judgment of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, we notice that Tribunal had relied on its earlier judgment in case of this very Page 1 of 2 HC-NIC Page 1 of 2 Created On Tue Oct 31 10:04:04 IST 2017 O/TAXAP/762/2017 ORDER assessee. Against such judgment, Revenue had filed Tax Appeal No.637 of 2017 which was dismissed on 04.09.2017 making following observations: 2. Issues pertain to labour charges and ultimate Gross Profit ratio declared by assessee for assessment year 2007 2008. Assessing Officer was of opinion that there was sharp increase in labour charges. He therefore, after hearing assessee rejected books of accounts and disallowed part of labour charges. CIT(Appeals) as well as Tribunal both found that there was no justification in doing so. Tribunal while confirming view of CIT(Appeals) noted that eventually assessee company had achieved better result by reshuffling labour force and profit ratio of year under consideration had improved as compared to earlier years. issues are thus essentially factual in nature. Commissioner(Appeals) as well as Tribunal having concurrently come to factual findings, no question of law arises. 3. In result, Tax Appeal is dismissed. (AKIL KURESHI, J.) (BIREN VAISHNAV, J.) ANKIT Page 2 of 2 HC-NIC Page 2 of 2 Created On Tue Oct 31 10:04:04 IST 2017 Pr. Commissioner of Income-tax, Surat I v. Ganga Fashion Pvt. Ltd
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