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Issues: Whether, for computing the non-share benefit under rule 11(9) of the Estate Duty (Controlled Companies) Rules, 1953, the excess remuneration received by the deceased alone or the total excess remuneration paid to all directors must be taken into account for determining the amount includible under section 17(2) of the Estate Duty Act, 1953.
Analysis: Section 17 of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 charges transfers to a controlled company by reference to the benefits accruing to the deceased in the last three accounting years, and rule 7 of the Estate Duty (Controlled Companies) Rules, 1953 requires the benefits to be split into share benefit and non-share benefit. Rule 11(9) operates to adjust the computation by reference to the deceased's own benefit position, so that any inter-relationship between share benefit and non-share benefit is worked out on the basis of the benefits accruing to the deceased. The excess remuneration paid to other directors had already entered the company's income and was not the relevant measure for the deceased's non-share benefit computation. The proper approach was therefore to consider only the excess remuneration received by the deceased in applying rule 11(9).
Conclusion: The excess remuneration received by the deceased alone had to be considered, and the Tribunal was wrong in taking the remuneration paid to all directors into account. The computation made by the Appellate Controller was upheld, and the question was answered against the assessee and in favour of the Revenue.
Final Conclusion: The reference was answered by holding that the amount includible under section 17(2) had to be computed on the basis of the deceased's own excess remuneration, not the aggregate excess remuneration paid to all directors.
Ratio Decidendi: For the purposes of rule 11(9) of the Estate Duty (Controlled Companies) Rules, 1953, the computation of non-share benefit must be confined to the benefits accruing to the deceased and cannot be expanded to include benefits received by other directors.
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