Sindh High Court
2024
THLN 1035
2024 PTD 716
Laws Cited
Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 | Sales Tax Act, 1990
Sections
214C, 177, 122(9), 174, 214A, 214C, 122/ 74

Messrs SKF PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD. through Managing Director and others

VS

FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary (Law and Justice Division) and others

Petitioner(s) by: Anwar Kashif Mumtaz and Usman Alam for Petitioners (in C.P. No.D-2908 of 2022). Kafeel Ahmed Abbasi for Inland Revenue (in C.P. No.D-2908 of 2022).
Respondent(s) by:
Present: Irfan Saadat Khan and Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan, Judge
JUDGMENT:

IRFAN SAADAT KHAN, Judge.---The instant petitions have been filed seeking quashment of the extension letter dated 04.12.2019 issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (hereinafter referred to as FBR) whereby extension in time for finalization of audit, proceedings have been granted upto 30.06.2020 for the tax year 2014 in some 459 cases and the ease of the petitioner was among those 459 cases wherein the FBR has condoned the time limit in respect of cases selected for audit under Section 214C of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 (hereinafter referred to as the Ordinance) for the tax year 2014 as per the audit policy of 2015.2.    Briefly stated the facts of the case are that the petitioner in C.P. No.D-2908 of 2020, is a private limited company engaged in providing operational and technical services and is an agent of SKF Euro trade AB. The return of income, for the tax year 2014 was filed by the petitioner on 19.11.2014 by declaring an income of Rs.10,718,147/-. As per t...