Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Income Tax, Calcutta v. Prahaladrai Agarwala

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Reported as [1989] 2 S.C.R. 737
Bench R.S. Patflak and M.H. Kania JJ.
Decided 26 April 1989

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the High Court is right in answering. the question referred to it in the negative, in favour of the assessee and against the Revenue.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961: Section 64(J)(iii)-Wife partner in firm " alongwith husband-Capital contributed by wife out of amount gifted by the husband-Share of profit of assessee's wife-Whether includible in total income of the husband-There must be proximate connection between the accrual of income and as~ets transferred. The respondent-assessee was one of the partners in a lirm in which the live other partners were his wife, mother, grand-father, brother, and a stranger. His wife had contributed Rs.Sl,000 as capital c in the lirm, which amount came out of two gifts made to her by the assessee.

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