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Issues: Whether share premiums received by a banking company and credited to its reserve fund, without a separate share premium account, could be included in its paid-up capital for the purpose of computing super-tax rebate under the relevant Finance Acts.
Analysis: The expression "standing to the credit of the share premium account" was held not to require a separate account bearing that label. A construction demanding a formally separate and specifically titled share premium account was rejected as too technical. The provision was read in the light of the object of the rebate, the mischief sought to be prevented, and the law as it stood on the first day of the relevant previous years. Since the share premium amounts were preserved in identifiable form in the reserve fund account, they retained their character as share premium and could satisfy the statutory description. The later requirement under section 78 of the Companies Act, 1956, did not alter the meaning of identical language in the Finance Acts of 1956, 1957 and 1958. The contrary contention based on section 17 of the Banking Companies Act, 1949 was rejected.
Conclusion: The share premium amounts were includible in paid-up capital for rebate purposes, and the question was answered in the affirmative, in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: For rebate provisions in taxation law, share premium need not stand in a separately titled account if the amounts remain identifiable and are standing to the credit of an account as share premium.
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