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Issues: Whether a firm that had ceased its own business activity, had no licence to act as an insurance agent, and received commission earned by a partner's relative could retain registration and have such receipts assessed as its income.
Analysis: The firm's objects were confined to manufacture and sale of its own products, and its business had stopped from the relevant assessment year onwards. The commission was earned by an individual acting as an insurance agent, an activity that required a licence under section 42 of the Insurance Act, which the firm admittedly did not possess. Mere arrangement by which the individual's earnings were made over to the partners could not convert that personal income into income of the firm or amount to business carried on by the firm. In the absence of real business activity, the firm could not be regarded as a genuine continuing firm for registration purposes.
Conclusion: The cancellation of the firm's registration was justified and the receipts could not be treated as the firm's income; the reference was answered against the assessee and in favour of the Revenue.
Final Conclusion: The firm was not entitled to continue as a registered firm once it had ceased business and lacked the statutory licence necessary for the activity from which the disputed receipts arose.
Ratio Decidendi: A firm cannot retain registration or claim personal earnings of others as its own income when it has ceased carrying on its own business and the relevant activity requires a licence that the firm does not hold.
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