Lawgist11Best judgment assessment
--If--
(a) any person fails to make the return required by any notice given under sub-section (2) of section 8 and has not made a return or a revised return under sub-section (3) of that section, or
(b) any person having made a return, fails to comply with all the terms of a notice issued under sub-section (1) of section 10, or
(c) the Income-tax Officer is not satisfied about the correctness or the completeness of the accounts of the assessee,
the Income-tax Officer, after taking into account all relevant material which he has gathered shall make the assessment of the chargeable receipts to the best of his judgment and determine the sum payable by the assessee or refundable to the assessee on the basis of such assessment.
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- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Application of the Act
- 4 Tax authorities
- 5 Charge of tax
- 6 Scope of chargeable receipts
- 7 Computation of chargeable receipts
- 8 Return of chargeable receipts
- 9 Self-assessment
- 10 Assessment
- 11 Best judgment assessment
- 12 Re-opening of assessment at the instance of the assessee
- 13 Receipts escaping assessment
- 14 Advance payment of hotel receipts tax
- 15 Penalty for failure to furnish returns, comply with notices, concealment of receipts, etc
- 16 Penality for false estimate of, or failure to pay, hotel-receipts tax payable in advance
- 17 Opportunity of being heard
- 18 Appeals to the Commissioner (Appeals)
- 19 Appeals to Appellate Tribunal
- 20 Rectification of mistakes
- 21 Hotel-receipts tax deductible in computing total income under Income-tax Act
- 22 Revision of order prejudicial to revenue
- 23 Revision of orders by Commissioner
- 24 Application of provisions of Income-tax Act
- 25 Income-tax papers to be available for the purposes of this Act
- 26 Wilful attempt to evade tax, etc
- 27 Failure to furnish returns of chargeable receipts
- 28 Failure to produce accounts and documents
- 29 False statement in verification, etc
- 30 Abetment of false return, etc
- 31 Punishment for second and subsequent offences
- 32 Certain offences to be non-cognizable
- 33 Institution of proceedings and composition of offences
- 34 Power to make rules
- 35 Power to exempt
- 36 Power to remove difficulties
- 37 [Repealed]
