Completed liquidation and sale of a corporate debtor as a going...

Completed liquidation and sale of a corporate debtor as a going concern can make income-tax appeals on pre-IBC additions infructuous where the liquidation has closed and subsisting NCLT directions require pre-transfer liabilities to be dealt with only within the IBC framework. Because assessments, notices and proceedings for the pre-transfer period were barred against the transferred entity and its successors, the Tribunal treated any merits adjudication as academic and disposed of the appeals without examining the additions. The note also clarifies that the outcome was confined to the corporate debtor and did not decide any independent action against former management or other persons.