TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
847/CBDT.
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....value of the entire property that is to be included in the computation of the principal value of the estate. 2. The Supreme Court recently had an occasion to consider the scope of the expression "to the extent" appearing in Section 10 of the Estate Duty Act, in the case of Controller of Estate Duty, Madras Vs. MST. Parvathi Ammal (Civil Appeal No. 1395 of 1970). Facts of that case in brief were a....
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.... appeal has confirmed the action of the Assistant Controller of Estate Duty. The Madras High Court, however, held that Mayavaram Lodge was a bundle of rights of which possession and enjoyment formed a part. The High Court agreed that there was non-exclusion of the deceased but added that so far as the ownership of the property was concerned there was no question that the donees exclusively retaine....
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....respect of...... only the aforesaid part of fraction of the property. The Supreme Court further observed "The view urged on behalf of the respondent and accepted by the High Court that the estate duty is payable only in respect of the value of the right to possession and enjoyment in the hand of the deceased as a lessee of Mayavaram Lodge runs, in our opinion, counter to the plain language of sect....
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....odified to that extent. What is to be included in the estate u/s 10 of the Estate Duty Act is the value of that part of the property itself the possession and enjoyment of which was not assumed immediately by the donees and thence-forward retained to the entire exclusion of the donor; and not merely the value of the right to possession and enjoyment in the hands of the deceased. Thus where the dec....