Supreme Court of India

Principal Commissioner of Income Tax (central) – 2 v. M/s. Mahagun Realtors (p) Ltd.

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Reported as [2022] 4 S.C.R. 502
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 5 April 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion and having regard to the facts of this case, this court is of the considered view, that the impugned order of the High Court cannot be sustained; it is set as ide.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961 – ss. 2(1A), 2(31) and 170(2) – Amalgamation of companies – Effect of amalgamation in the context of income tax – Held: The combined effect of s.394( 2) of the Companies Act, 1956, s.2(1A) and various other provision s of the Income Tax Act, is that despite amalgamation, the business, enterprise and undertaking of the transferee or amalgamated company- which ceases to exist, after amalgamation, is treated as a continuin g one, and any benefits, by way of carry forward of losses (of the transferor company), depreciation, etc., are allowed to the tr ansferee – Therefore,

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