Court Rules: Successor Company Can't Claim Depreciation on Revalued Assets in Firm Succession u/s 47(xiii.

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....Allowability of depreciation on the actual cost of the assets arrived at by virtue of revaluation of the trade mark - firm is succeeded by a company falling u/s 47(xiii) - No where the proviso mentions that the predecessor has always to be a company. It specifically covers transfer under section 47(xiii). This section deals with succession of a firm by a company. When learned counsel of the assessee is himself admitting that the predecessor could not have claimed on the revalued amount, there is no question of the assessee company getting depreciation on the revalued amount. - AT....