Clarification regarding liability and status of Official Assignees under the Income-tax Act

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....liability and status of Official Assignees under the Income-tax Act-reg. Under provisions of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 and the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920, where an order of Insolvency is passed against a debtor by the concerned Court, property of the debtor gets vested with the Court appointed Official Assignee. The Official Assignee then realizes property of the insolvent ....

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....h the Assignee receives or is entitled to receive while managing the property for benefit of any person. As per the two insolvency Acts, Official Assignee manages the property of the debtor for the benefit of the creditors. Further, the Insolvency Act, 1909, in unambiguous terms, provides that an insolvent ceases to have an ownership interest in the estate once an order of adjudication is made und....

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....ion 2(31)(vii) of the Act, not being one of the 'persons' falling in sub-clauses (i) to (vi) of section 2(31) of the Act. 4.   Therefore, Official Assignee is required to file income-tax return electronically in the ITR Form applicable to 'artificial juridical person' separately for each of the estate of the insolvent and the income shall be taxed as per the rates appl....