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2017 (6) TMI 833 - BOMBAY HIGH COURTCapital gains tax - eligible transfer - transaction of transfer of shares by the assessee company in pursuance of family arrangement - assessee/company has a corporate veil - Held that:- in the present case, we are not concerned with the members of Mohota family who were parties to the family settlement, but with transfer of share done by the Company incorporated under the Companies Act having separate/independent corporate existence, perpetual succession and common seal. This Company is independent and distinct from it's members. The rationale for Section 47(v) of the Act in excluding a transfer of the entire share capital of a subsidiary to it's holding company which owns 100% of it's shares from being considered a transfer. In the present facts, we are not concerned with transfer between holding and subsidiary companies. It is not the case of the appellant that Section 47 of the Act is applicable. Further, lifting of corporate veil at the instance of the assessee would mean that it is denying it's corporate existence. This, after taking advantage of the separate existence of a Company under the Act. Therefore, after having incorporated the Limited Company and given it separate existence from it's share holders, it is not open to the Company to urge “Please ignore my separate existence and look at the persons behind me.“ If that be so, the Appellant/Company must opt for voluntarily winding up and then the shares being allotted to the individual members on liquidation would be governed by the family arrangement/settlement. Thus the Tribunal was correct in holding that the transaction of transfer of shares by the independent corporate entity was assessable to capital gain tax. - Decided in favour of the respondent/revenue and against the appellant/assessee
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