1985 (1) TMI 43

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.... case and has referred the following question of law to this court for our opinion: " Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Triwas right in holding that section 26 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, did apply to the facts of the case of the assessee and that the Income-tax Officer was justified in law to have taken half share of the property income in the hands of the assess....

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....71 and 1972-73, since the ITO had exercised his option and made the assessment in the status of an association of persons, he could not change his option subsequently. Hence, for these two years, the ITO should have included the income from the property in question in their individual assessment only for rate purposes. The matter went up to the Tribunal. The Tribunal held that since the shares wer....

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.... buildings or buildings and lands appurtenant thereto is owned by two or more persons and their respective shares are definite and ascertainable, such persons shall not in respect of such property be assessed as an association of persons, but the share of each such person in the income from the property as computed in accordance with sections 22 to 25 shall be included in his total income". This s....

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....P). These cases are distinguishable. None of them considered the effect of s. 26 of the I.T. Act. They proceeded on the basis that the ITO has option to assess the income either in the hands of an individual or in the hands of a firm or a HUF or association of persons. In that event, they laid down how the options are to be exercised and the consequence of the exercise thereof. In the present c....