Supreme Court of India

Mcgregor & Balfour Ltd. v. The Commissioner of Income-tax, West Bengal

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Reported as [1959] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 355
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 16 March 1959

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Income-tax-Company carrying on business in England and India-Refund of excess profits tax paid in England-If can be taxed in India-Indian Finance Act, Ig46, s. II(4). The appellant carried on business in England and in India. For the previous years it paid excess profits tax in both countries and it obtained deduction of the amounts so paid from its profits and gains for the purposes of the Indian Income-tax Act. In the assessment year 1947-48 it obtained a repayment of Rs. 2,31,009 out of the excess profits tax paid in England. The Income-tax authorities acting under s. n(14), Indian Finance

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