Supreme Court of India

The Peerless General Finance and Investment Company Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax

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Reported as [2019] 18 S.C.R. 957
Bench R. F. Nariman and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 9 July 2019

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Income Tax Act, 1961 – AYs 1985-86 and 1986-97 – Subscriptions received from public at large under c ollective investment scheme – Difference between capital receipt s and revenue receipts – Assessee-company floated scheme which re quired subscribers to deposit amounts by way of subscriptions, and, at the end of the scheme, the subscribed amounts were repaid with int erest – Scheme also contained forfeiture clause – Dispute whether re ceipts of subscriptions in the hands of assessee-company should be tre ated as income or capital receipts – Held: The amount dep osited with the

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