Business reorganisation requires recognition of successor's modified return; draft orders against dissolved transferor quashed and fresh review direct...
Pre-commencement R&D deduction denied where business had not commenced; deeming benefit requires tangible start of manufacture or commercial exploitat...
Priority of set-off: brought forward business losses must be adjusted before unabsorbed depreciation; procedural safeguards required for invoking rest...
Tax liability of a deceased sole proprietor may be enforced against the legal representatives to the extent of the estate, and death does not extinguish liability for tax, interest or penalty. The operative safeguard is that any adverse determination must be made only after personal hearing and by a reasoned, speaking order. A demand raised in the name of the deceased without hearing the legal representatives is not sustainable. The source also notes that another challenge was not pressed and was left open.
Tax liability of a deceased sole proprietor may be enforced against the legal representatives to the extent of the estate, and death does not extinguish liability for tax, interest or penalty. The operative safeguard is that any adverse determination must be made only after personal hearing and by a reasoned, speaking order. A demand raised in the name of the deceased without hearing the legal representatives is not sustainable. The source also notes that another challenge was not pressed and was left open.
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