Regular Assessment

Regular assessment, section 148 mandates the Assessing Officer to serve a notice on the assessee before making the assessment, reassessment or re-computation under s. 147. From the aforemen-tioned provisions, it is manifest that an initial assessment made by the Assessing Officer either on the assessee voluntarily furnishing a return of the income or furnishing such a return on being served a notice under s. 148, is a 'regular assessment' under s. 2(40) of the Act, but an order passed by the Assessing Officer making a reassessment or revised assessment in a case where an assessment had been made, does not come within the meaning of the said expression, K. Govindan and Sons v. CIT, AIR 2001 SC 254: (2001) 1 SCC 460.