1997 (4) TMI 13

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....me-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), is directed against the judgment of the Kerala High Court dated February 26, 1980 (see [1980] 126 ITR 382), in Income-tax Reference No. 24 of 1978 which relates to the assessment year 1969-70. The assessee is a registered firm dealing in sea foods having its head office at Cochin and a branch at Bombay. During the accounting year relevant....

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....On further appeal by the assessee, the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as "the Tribunal") held that the assessee was entitled to development rebate at the rate of 35 per cent. The Tribunal referred the following question for the opinion of the High Court : "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal is right in law in hol....

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....f of the Revenue on the ground that while making the assessment for the year concerned, the Income-tax Officer had proceeded on the explicit basis that despite the fact that the freezing plant, etc., in the Bombay branch of the assessee had been let out to a sister concern, the said plant and machinery were none the less being used by the assessee for its business and treated the income derived by....

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....n and the assessment orders were allowed to become final. The High Court has also mentioned that in respect of the assessment year 1969-70, the Department had filed an appeal before the Tribunal but no ground was taken at all in the said appeal that the development rebate ought not to have been granted to the assessee. The High Court held that, since the grant of development rebate to the assessee....