1994 (2) TMI 29

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....plication under section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, is filed by the Revenue seeking to compel the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal to refer to the High Court three purported questions of law. We have heard learned counsel for the Revenue. The dispute is regarding the investment allowance relating to the assessment year 1981-82 claimed by the assessee under section 32A(4) of the Act. The As....

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....cording to the Revenue, the refusal to grant the allowance was correct as the law actually stood at the relevant time and the fact that retrospectivity was given to a subsequent amendment cannot be a ground for review or rectification. We are not able to agree with the submission made on behalf of the Revenue. When the law is amended with retrospective effect, the fiction is that all must proce....

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....er the amended law, the assessee would be entitled to only Rs. 21,157 as interest. The Supreme Court observed : "At the time when the Income-tax Officer applied his mind to the question of rectifying the alleged mistake, there can be no doubt that he had to read the principal Act as containing the inserted proviso as from April 1, 1952. If that be the true position then the order which he made ....