1974 (10) TMI 22

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....on for issue of a writ of prohibition directing the Income-tax Officer, Circle II, not to proceed with the proposed revised assessment for the assessment year 1966-67, in pursuance of his notice dated March 2, 1971, in G.I. No. I-M/1966-67. The petitioner was assessed for the assessment year 1966-67 by an order dated November 26, 1966, as rectified in the order dated 27th May, 1968. The assesse....

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....Though in the resultant figure of the total assessable income no change happened because of this reallocation, the result of such reallocation deprived the assessee of the benefit of sections 85 and 85A in respect of the dividend income. After this assessment for the assessment year 1970-71, the Income-tax Officer issued a notice under section 147(b) proposing to revise the assessment for the year....

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....of the view that the relief available under sections 80M and 80K in respect of dividend income is with reference to only the net income and not the gross dividend. It is in this view he considered that income has been made the subject of excessive relief in the assessment year 1966-67. In a recent judgment in Commissioner of Income-tax v. Madras Motor and General Insurance Co. Ltd. (T.Cs. Nos. 119....

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....he learned counsel. The language in section 99(1)(iv) and section 80K are similar and in both cases the rebate is to be allowed on the dividend income. There being no restrictive words similar to " net dividend " in the section we are unable to accept the contention that the rebate is to be allowed only on the net dividend. If this view were to be accepted then we cannot say that there was any exc....