2002 (10) TMI 47

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.... question referred to us at the instance of the Revenue is, "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was right in law and had valid materials in holding, that the market value of the shares held by the assessee in a company in which the public are substantially interested and the shares of which are also quoted in a recognised stock exchange can be fixed at a ra....

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..... The Tribunal took the average of the book value and the value as per the quotation on the stock market and directed the valuation of the assessee's shares at Rs. 45 per share. For doing so, the Tribunal has not referred to any provision of the Wealth-tax Act enabling them to fix the value in that manner. "Quoted share" is defined in rule 2(9) of Schedule III to the Wealth-tax Act, which Sched....

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....he Finance Act, 1992, with effect from April 1, 1993, in rule 9 provided that "the value of an equity share or a preference share in any company or a debenture of any company which is a quoted share or a quoted debenture shall be taken as the value quoted in respect of such share or debenture on the valuation date or where there is no such quotation on the valuation date, the quotation on the date....