Supreme Court of India

Sait Nagjee Purushotham and Co. v. Commissioner of Income-tax, Madras

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Reported as [1964] 6 S.C.R. 91
Bench A.K. Sarkar J.
Decided 20 December 1963

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Income Tax Act (II of 1922). s. 25(3) and (4)-Firm carrying on business in 1918-Disintegration into two firms-If discontinuance of business . By s. 25(4) of the Income-tax Act, 'Where the person who was at the commencement of the Indian Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1939 .... carrying on any business, profession or vocatioa in which tax was at any time charged under the provisions of the Indian Income­ tax Act, 1918, is succeeded in such capacity by another person, the change not being merely a change in the constitution of a partnership, no tax shall be payable by the first mentioned person in

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