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Issues: Whether, on a partial partition of a Hindu undivided family, allotment of properties to the wife of a coparcener and the coparceners' minor children could be treated as a gift by the family so as to attract gift-tax.
Analysis: The controlling legal position was the distinction between a partition of joint family property and a transfer of property. A partition, even if the allotment is not arithmetically equal to every presumed share, does not by itself amount to a transfer in the ordinary legal sense. The definition of "gift" under section 2(xii) and the extended definition of "transfer of property" under section 2(xxiv) of the Gift-tax Act, 1958, were construed in the light of the nature of Hindu law partition. The Court applied the principle that statutory words in a taxing provision must be read in their own context, and followed the ratio that a partition is not a disposition, conveyance, assignment, settlement, delivery, payment, or other alienation of property for the purposes of section 2(xxiv).
Conclusion: The allotment on partition did not constitute a gift by the assessee-HUF and no gift-tax was payable on the amount in question.
Final Conclusion: The reference was answered in favour of the assessee, and the Department's challenge to cancellation of the gift-tax assessment failed.
Ratio Decidendi: A partition of Hindu undivided family property is not a transfer of property and, therefore, unequal allotment on partition does not fall within the statutory definition of gift under the Gift-tax Act, 1958.
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