Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Income-tax/excess Profits Tax, Bombay City v. Messrs. Bhogilal Laherchand Including Batliboi & Co., Bombay

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Reported as [1954] 1 S.C.R. 444
Bench Mehr Chand Mahajan, S. R. Das, Ghulam Hasan and Jagannadhadas JJ.
Decided 18 December 1953

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the answer returned by the High Court of Bombay to the first question referred to it was wrong.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Indian Income-tax Act (XI of 1922), s. 42(1)-Scope of. Hindu undivided family was carrying on business in Bom­ bay, Madras and the Mysore State, being treated as a single asses­ see and its relevant accounting period was 10th October, 1941, to 8th November, 1942. During this period, the Mysore branch purchased goods from the Bombay head office and the Madras branch of the value of Rs. 2 lakhs odd. The Income- tax Officer estimated these purchases of the Mysore branch in British India at Rs. 3 lakhs and its profits at Rs. 75,000 on the sale of these goods )n Mysore. In view of the provisions

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