2007 (4) TMI 214 - HC - Income Tax

Summary

Issues involved:
The judgment involves the Revenue filing applications under section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 against the Tribunal's order. The Revenue raised six questions of law under section 256(1) of the Act regarding the disallowance of losses claimed by the assessee, the genuineness of conversion of shares into stock-in-trade, the treatment of loss on sale of shares, and the justification of the lower authorities' decisions.

Question 1:
The main issue is whether the conversion of shares of Bajaj Auto Limited held by the assessee as a capital asset into stock-in-trade was genuine and if the Tribunal was right in allowing the claimed loss on the sale of these shares.

Facts:
The assessee converted 2500 shares of Bajaj Auto Limited into stock-in-trade and claimed a business loss of Rs. 11,45,000. The Assessing Officer rejected the loss claim, suspecting the conversion was not genuine due to confidential information held by the assessee regarding legal suits against the company.

Question 2:
The Tribunal upheld the conversion of shares as genuine based on past conversions, intimation to the Assessing Officer, sale through stock exchange, and legal precedents. The Tribunal found no merit in the Assessing Officer's suspicion of artificial loss creation.

Decision:
The High Court found that the Tribunal's decision was based on factual findings, and no legal questions arose from the order. Therefore, all applications by the Revenue were dismissed, and no costs were awarded.