1984 (9) TMI 28

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....rences under section 27(1) of the Wealth-tax Act, 1957. The common question referred is: " Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal is right in law in holding that a deduction of 10% has to be allowed on the property owned by the co-owners even when the valuation is made on rental capitalisation method ? The facts lie in a narrow compass: The assessee is one of t....

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....mining the fair market value of a co-owner's share. The question is, whether such allowance or deduction at the rate of 10% is justified even when the valuation is determined by adopting the rental capitalisation method. Mr. Srinivasan, learned counsel for the Department, urged that when once the rent is ascertained and a proper multiple is employed, the fair market value determined thereon, for....

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....the valuation date, that is, the price it would fetch if sold in the open market on the valuation date. The valuation by rental capitalisation method depends upon the rent actually paid in respect of the premises occupied by tenants or on the rental value of the self-occupied buildings. After so ascertaining the annual rental value, it has to be capitalised by an appropriate multiplier. This has b....

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....ficulties of enjoying a co-owner's share by the purchaser if it is gold in the open market. In Lalita Jabbar v. Competent Authority [1982] 133 ITR 389, 396, the Calcutta High Court observed that an undivided half share of the property purchased would not and could not be half of the value of the entire property if sold in the open market. A purchaser of an undivided share of property cannot also ....