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An assessee cannot be said to be a defaulter in payment of advance tax if he had no liability to pay any advance tax under s 208 on any of the due dates for payment of the advance tax

Case Law Details

TaxGuru Citation
2011 taxguru.in 672
Case Name
Emami Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Income Tax (Calcutta High Court)
Date of Judgement/Order
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Emami Ltd. Vs CIT (High Court of Calcutta)- Where on the last date of the Financial Year preceding the relevant Assessment Year, the assessee had no liability to pay advance tax, he would be nevertheless asked to pay interest in terms of Section 234B and Section 234C of the Act for default in making payment of tax in advance which was physically impossible.

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Special Jurisdiction (Income-Tax)

(Original Side)

I.T.A. No. 199 of 2006

Emami Limited Vs Commissioner of Income Tax

Heard on: 07.06.2011

Judgement on: 17th June, 2011.

Bhaskar Bhattacharya, J.:

This appeal under Section 260A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 is at the instance of an assessee and is directed against an order dated December 16, 2005 passed by the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, “D” Bench, Kolkata, in Income-tax Appeal being ITA No. 108/Kol/2005 for the Assessment Year 200 1-02 and thereby allowing the appeal preferred by the Revenue and setting aside the order passed by the CIT (A).

Being dissatisfied, the assessee has come up with the present appeal.

The facts giving rise to filing of this appeal may be summed up thus:

a) The assessee carries on business, inter alia, of manufacturing toiletries and medicines.

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