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Issues: Whether section 56(2)(x) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 read with Rule 11UA of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 applies to a company's buy-back of its own shares, so as to treat the difference between the buy-back price and fair market value as taxable income.
Analysis: The transaction was a lawful buy-back undertaken under section 68 of the Companies Act, 2013, pursuant to the prescribed approvals and procedure. A buy-back of a company's own shares is not a purchase of an asset in the ordinary sense, but a statutory reduction of share capital, followed by extinguishment and destruction of the bought-back shares. The premise of section 56(2)(x) is acquisition of property at less than fair market value; that premise fails where the very shares bought back cease to exist on completion of the transaction. The Revenue's broad reading of the provision was held to be inconsistent with the corporate law character of buy-back and with the underlying tax hypothesis of acquisition of property.
Conclusion: Section 56(2)(x) and Rule 11UA do not apply to buy-back of a company's own shares, and the addition made on that basis was unsustainable. The assessee succeeds on this issue.
Ratio Decidendi: A statutory buy-back of a company's own shares, being a reduction of share capital that results in extinction of the shares, does not amount to acquisition of property at a concessional value for the purpose of section 56(2)(x) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
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