1932 (1) TMI 27

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..... 1. The following question has been referred to us by the Income Tax Commissioner, viz.: Whether the transfer by the petitioners of Eagle Rolling Mills to a limited company on the 31st December, 1926, constitutes the latter company successor to the petitioners within the meaning of Section 26(2) of the Act. 2. Section 26(2) of the Indian Income Tax Act reads as follows: Wh....

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....ess of the Eagle Rolling Mills to a company formed expressly for the purpose of buying it. The petitioners claimed the benefit of the deductions allowed in the shape of depreciation and also for expenditure for the purpose of earning profits in the year of account under Section 10(2) of the Act. The Income Tax authorities, however under Section 26(2) assessed the new company holding that the new c....

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.... that as, in this case, the new company has not succeeded to all the businesses which Messrs. Best & Co. own and control, Section 26(2) has no application and that the proper persons entitled to be assessed and to claim the deductions are the petitioners. As the learned Income Tax Commissioner points out, to introduce the words "each and every" into Section 26(2) in place of "any " would be to dep....