ITR Filed without Regular Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account is Defective, not invalid; AO holds Responsibility for Notifying Defects: Supreme Court [Read Judgement]

The Income Tax Department seized the books of accounts, resulting in their non-submission with the Income Tax Returns (ITRs)
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The Supreme Court has asserted that Income Tax Returns ( ITRs ) filed without a regular balance sheet and profit and loss account may be deemed defective but are certainly not invalid. The decision, delivered by the bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, overturned the previous decision of the Kerala High Court…

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