TMI Blog1938 (11) TMI 22X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the Madras Presidency owns a saw mill at Gyothingauk in Burma. In the account year, that is the year commencing from the 1st April 1936, the saw mill business resulted in a loss of ₹ 8,663 and her income consisted solely of interest received from investments. For the purpose of assessment to income-tax she sought to set off the loss sustained in the saw mill business against the profits from ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ction and it provides that where any Act of the Central Legislature enacts that income-tax shall be charged for any year at any rate or rates applicable to the total income of an assessee, tax at the rate or those rates shall be charged for that year in accordance with, and subject to the provisions of, the Act in respect of all income, profits and gains of the previous year of every individual, H ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... t. It is true that the Income-tax Act cannot be applied in any year until the Finance Act has been passed but the Act cannot be treated as being a statute which is passed annually. It is a permanent enactment but it may not be enforced in any particular year until the Finance Act has been passed. Section 4 cannot be divorced from Section 3, and as Section 3 charges the tax on the income of the pre ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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