1974 (11) TMI 23

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....The assessee is a company carrying on business as civil engineering contractors and dealers in mill stores, and in the course of that business it had dealings with a large number of parties. Various amounts became due to those parties in respect of the trading transactions of the assessee-company, and in cases where those amounts were not claimed within three years of their becoming due, the asses....

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....cumulated in the relevant year, the provisions of section 10(2A) became applicable and hence he added the sum of Rs. 65,881 to the total income of the assessee. On appeal to the Appellate Assistant Commissioner, it was held that the amount could not be taxed in the assessment year because the amount accrued as a benefit to the assessee only when the debts became unenforceable, and he, therefore, d....

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....een held that the mere fact of the expiry of the period of limitation to enforce a debt does not by itself constitute cessation of liability within section 10(2A). In the J. K.Chemical's case it has further been clarified that neither remission nor cessation of liability could take place by a unilateral act on the part of the debtor, and that even if the amount was distributed by the company to it....