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2016 (1) TMI 931 - AT - Income TaxDeemed dividend u/s 2(22)(e) - applicability of clubbing provision for deemed income - whether the exempt capital gain is to be excluded from accumulated profits for the purpose of section 2(22)(e)? - whether the provisions of section 2(22)(e) of the Act could be invoked on the family members of the assessee who are not shareholders in the lending company and accordingly whether clubbing provision would be applicable for deemed income? - Held that:- The legal fiction created in the Explanation 2 to section 2(22) of the Act that ‘accumulated profits’ shall include all profits of the company upto the date of distribution or payment should be understood to include the current year profits of the company and not otherwise. For reckoning the accumulated profits, apart from the opening balance of accumulated profits, the profits earned in the current year also are to be added and then the total accumulated profits should be considered for the purpose of calculation of dividend out of accumulated profits, if any. The said Explanation nowhere contemplates to bring within the ambit of expression ‘accumulated profits’, any capital profits which are not liable to capital gains tax. Accordingly, even going by the provisions of the statute, it can safely be concluded that the capital gains could be included for reckoning the accumulated profits only when the said capital gains has been duly subjected to tax. In the instant case, the capital gains derived by the company to the tune of ₹ 197.20 lacs is exempt and hence the same should not be included in accumulated profits and if the same is excluded, then there is only negative accumulated profits available with the company. Admittedly, the provisions of section 2(22)(e) could be invoked only to the extent of the company possessing accumulated profits. In the absence of accumulated profits, there is no scope for making any addition towards deemed dividend. Thus we hold that the exempted capital gains shall not enter the stream of the expression ‘accumulated profits’ and the company BKFCPL has got only negative accumulated profits after exclusion of exempted capital gains and hence the provisions of section 2(22)(e) of the Act cannot be invoked in the facts and circumstances of the case.- Decided in favour of assessee.
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