1989 (2) TMI 52

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....f the court was delivered by GOKAL CHAND MITAL J. -The Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Chandigarh, has referred the following two questions for the opinion of this court : " 1. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal erred in law in holding that the sum of Rs. 2,00,000 standing against the narration, 'proposed dividend' in the relevant balance-sheets on the fi....

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....161 ITR 741 (SC), the first question has to be answered in favour of the Revenue, in the negative and on consideration of the facts and keeping in view the aforesaid decision, we are of the opinion that they are right. On the first day of the accounting year relevant to the assessment years 1973-74 and 1974-75, the assessee, a limited company, proposed a dividend reserve in the sum of Rs. 2,00,000....

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....serve of Rs. 5,000 under the heading "Staff Welfare Fund". It claimed that the reserve be considered in computing the capital for the purposes of surtax under the Second Schedule to the Companies (Profits) Surtax Act, 1964, but the assessee's plea failed up to the Tribunal. On the basis of the decision of the Delhi High Court in Addl. CIT v. Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation of India Ltd. [1....

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....anies (Profits) Surtax Act, 1964. The other limb of question No. 2 relates to the assessment year 1974-75. If, out of the reserve created on the first day of the accounting period of the assessment year 1973-74, something is left out after appropriation on the first day of the accounting period relevant to the assessment year 1974-75, on that amount, the assessee would be entitled to deduction ....