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1977 (7) TMI 71

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..... g the respondent's appeal and assigning him the status of HUF as claimed by him in the returns filed as against the status of individual taken by the WTO. 2. The respondent filed his wealth-tax returns in the status of HUF as follows: Assessment year Amount 1970-71 99,100 1971-72 94,600 1972-73 1,37,600 1973-74 1,37,488 1974-75 2,74,700 The WTO did not dispute the returns as such and framing assessments under s. 16(3) accepted the returns by observing that valuer's certificates had been filed and after discussion, the total net wealth declared was accepted for all the years. The WTO, however, changed the status from that of HUF to individual witho .....

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..... decision in the case of CIT vs. Ridhkaran (1972) 84 ITR 705 (Raj). Another contention raised by the respondent before the AAC was that the WTO not having had given any notice under s. 16(2) of the WT Act could not frame assessments under s. 16(3) and, therefore, all the assessments were vitiated and bad. The AAC apparently accepted the first two contentions of the assessee and allowing the assessee's appeal held the respondent to be assessable in the status of HUF. 4. For the Revenue, Miss R.K. Chahal submitted that the case apparently was covered by the Punjab Haryana High Court judgment in Pritam Singh's case and accepted that after the said judgment as far as Punjab Haryana States are concerned, Customary Law had no application b .....

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..... en Jat Sikhs Constituted HUFs. There is no dispute in this case that the properties in respect of which assessments have been raised in the respondent's hands were ancestral in character. The question of correct status in the case of respondent came to be adjudicated upon by the Tribunal in income-tax assessments for the asst. yrs. 1970-71 to 1974-75 and it has been held there by the Tribunal vide its order dt. 4th Oct., 1976 that the assessee constituted a HUF and the lands in his hands were ancestral in character. Though the single Member deciding the income-tax appeals of the assessee has relied on the Pritam Singh's judgment, we are primarily dismissing these Revenue's appeals on the ground that the assessee was not governed by any cust .....

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