Passing of an order under Section 158BC rests on the previous approval of the Commissioner. On a reading of Section 158BG, particularly the proviso, reveal the mandatory nature of such an approval, that the proviso reads as ‘provided that no such order shall be passed without the previous approval of the Commissioner …’. In the background of the above-said provisions, in keeping the law declared by the Apex Court in Sahara India (Firm)’s case (supra) that with civil consequences flowing out of such an approval, we have no hesitation in accepting the plea of the assessee that in the face of such an approval granted to the order passed under Section 158BC, there can be no assumption of jurisdiction by an authority of the same rank under Section 263 of the Act.
Even though the Tribunal had not given any finding as regards the primary purpose, yet a reading of the order of the Assessing Officer shows that he had considered the clauses in the trust deed to arrive at the finding that the primary objects of the trust are charitable in nature and that the property given was impressed with the character of trust property.
Going by the definition of ‘housing project’ under section 80HHBA, to mean the construction of ‘any building’ and going by the deduction available under section 80-IB to be hundred per cent of the profits derived in the previous year relevant to the assessment year from such housing project complying with the condition, each block in the larger project by name ‘Agrini’ and ‘Vajra’, has to be taken as an independent building and hence a housing project,
Looked at from the angle of the subscriber, while there may be a certainty as to the dividend received every month for considering the same for assessment on accrual basis, as far as a company running the chit business is concerned, the dividend and the discount can properly be ascertained only at the completion of the transaction and not in the midway.
It is noted that the appropriation of the amounts, to the extent of Rs.18,32,782/-, towards the alleged service tax dues said to be payable by the petitioner, from the amount of Rs.47,00,094/- said to be due to the petitioner as export duty rebate, cannot be sustained in the eye of law. The petitioner ought to have been given a reasonable opportunity of hearing before the second respondent had appropriated the said amount towards the alleged excise duty liability of the petitioner.
Even though the parameter for considering the expenditure and income is not the same, yet the principle to be followed is that when the instrument concerned is certain as to its period of life and specifically points out to a particular interest amount to be paid on the maturity date, the question of assessing the entire interest in the first year itself does not arise.
It is seen from the facts that the assessee does not claim its expenditure as replacement of whole machinery or repairing of machinery as such. The assessee contended that such expenditure incurred in replacing the rolls has not in any manner increased the production capacity. On the other hand, it maintained the production capacity, as such, the rolls used removed the friction between the two machines in its process.
Mrs. Chitra Venkataraman, J. – The following are the questions of law raised by the assessee in the tax case appeal filed as against the order of the Tribunal relating to the Assessment Year 2001-02.
Normally where a transaction is undertaken by a person who is a businessman, the question as to whether investment in shares is an income from the line of business could be taken as adventure in the nature of trade and it should not pose a problem, since such transactions would be either incidental or ancillary to the business, although the transactions undertaken may not have a direct bearing to the business already undertaken by the assessee.
one cannot read any limitation into the expression housing project to mean the residential project alone and that if and when the projects have mixed built-up area of commercial and residential, the question of disallowance will arise only if and when the residential flats are beyond the limit as provided under sub clause (c) of Section 80-IB(10) of the Act and not otherwise.
