Supreme Court of India

Sohan Pathak and Sons v. Commissioner of Income-tax, U.P.

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Reported as [1954] 1 S.C.R. 158
Bench Patanjali Sastri C, Mukherjea, Vivian Bose, Ghulam Hasan and Jagannadhadas JJ.
Decided 23 September 1953

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Excess Profits Ta.r Act (XV of 1940), ss. 4, 5, JO. -Hindu undivided family-Partial partition dividing assets and liabilities of business among mern,bers-Members carrying on bnsiness as partners-Validity of partition-Artificial transaction for reducing liability to excess profits tax. Hindu undivided family carried on business in money lend· ing and brocade. On the 16th July, 1943, there was a partial partition amongst the members by which the brocade business was divided and its assets and liabilities were partitioned in equal shares between the members of the family. On the next day the

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