TMI Blog1923 (3) TMI 1X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ad with Section 6 of the Super Tax Act 1920. The question for decision is whether the assessees who the registered firm of M. Doraiswamy Aiyangar Bros. are, are assessable to super tax as an undivided Hindu family and the specific questions put to us are as follows: (1) Does the registration of the brothers as a firm as defined under Section 2(12) of Act VII of 1918 preclude the assessment o ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... he whole, no adequate evidence has been adduced which would enable one to record a finding as a fact whether the original capital of the firm was wholly or in part derived from joint family hinds. 3. To that is appended the following statement: It can only be inferred from the conduct of the assesses and all the circumstances of the case that appellants intended to trade as a joint family ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... individual must either if member of it or not, The general legal position appears to us to be beyond doubt. Members of a joint family may engage in trade in such a way as to embark on the adventure funds of the joint family and pledge its credit to their undertaking. On the other hand, the members of a joint family may embark on a trade without involving the funds of the joint family in it, and in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... present case the accounts appear to show that such a course has been pursued here and that the amounts advanced by Mr. M. Ananthachariar, the father of the assesses, and apparently the manager of the joint family of which they are all admittedly members, were treated as a mere loan for the purpose of the business to be re-paid with interest in the ordinary way and not as an indication that the bus ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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