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2022 (4) TMI 30 - ITAT AHMEDABADRecovery of Tax - Company under liquidation under the IBC - Disallowance on account of loss incurred out of trading in shares - HELD THAT:- Assessment year involved is 2015-16, and the AO has passed the assessment order on 27.12.2017, and the appellate order thereupon was passed on 27.12.2018. While NCLT has passed Resolution plan on 22.11.2017, and in the absence of any Resolution Plan, it was ordered to be liquidated vide order dated 22.11.2017. On completion of liquidation process, assessee-company was dissolved by the NCLT vide order dated 30.6.2020. Claim of the Department was prior to the date of Resolution Plan approved by the NCLT, and therefore, the present income tax proceedings is hit by section 31(1) of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, which has overriding effect vis-a-vis. the Income Tax Act, 1961. All these events are within the knowledge of the Income Tax Department, as the OL of assessee-company has intimated the Department from time to time in writing, but no action has been taken by the Department. Once a company is dissolved it becomes a non-existent party and therefore no action can be brought in its name. Therefore, in view of overriding effect of IBC code to the Income Tax proceeding, we hold that Revenue is not entitled to recover the claim, if any arising from the present proceedings for Asst. year 2015-16, as the same is not part of the resolution plan.
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