TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1981 (9) TMI 85
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.... an individual in the year of his death ? (2) Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the 'Tribunal erred in holding that the provisions of section 159 of the Incometax Act, 1961, apply and the provisions of section 64 of the said Act have no application ? (3) Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal erred in holding that the income did not accrue to the husband of the assessee ? (4) Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal erred in holding that the Income-tax Officer was not competent to include the income of the assessee's husband in the hands of the assessee ? " We are concerned in this reference with a partnership styled as M/s. Sylvester and Com....
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....C who allowed the same for the detailed reasons contained in para. 5 of his order. He seems to have accepted the assessee's contention that the relationship of husband and wife must exist at the time when the income accrues and that as the income accrued to the husband not on 21 st April, 1963, when he died, but on the making up of the accounts on 30th September, 1963, on which date the relationship of husband and wife had ceased to exist, s. 64(1) of the I.T. Act, 1961, did not apply. The revenue carried the matter in further appeal before the Tribunal. The Tribunal found in favour of the assessee on several different grounds, and each of these aspects indicated in the order of the Tribunal stands reflected in the four questions referred....
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....nandez clubbing the income of her late husband in her assessment. This was notified to the assessee. Her objection to this procedure is kept on record. After considering all the facts of the case, find it necessary to frame an assessment on this party clubbing the income of her husband." In para. 10 of his order, the judicial Member of the Tribunal has dealt with the various infirmities in the approach of the. ITO. As the matter has been succinctly and satisfactorily dealt with in the said paragraph, we reproduce the same in its entirety: " 10. The third objection raised by Mr. Nair against the inclusion of the disputed income in the assessee's assessment is equally formidable. Till the assessment year 1963-64, the income received by th....