TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1942 (1) TMI 11
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....al to the Assistant Commissioner and that officer, although he reduced the amount of the tax, was also of the opinion that there had been deliberate concealment and therefore a penalty was imposed by him though in a lesser sum. The assessee then applied to the Commissioner under Section 33 Of the Act and there was an application for a reference to this Court Under Section 66(2) of the Act. The learned Commissioner gave some Relief under Section 33, but he did not refer the case to this Court. The Tax and the penalty were reduced, but the learned Commissioner was also of the opinion that there had been concealment of the income. The assessee then applied to this Court under Section 66(3) of the Act on the 30th of July 1936 and by an order of this Court dated the 28th of July 1939 the Commissioner was required by us to state a case and to formulate certain questions of law for our decision. These questions of law were mentioned in the application to us and this Court was of the opinion that question No. 1 was not fair and was not couched in happy language, but the other three questions did arise and the learned Commissioner was required to refer those questions of law for our decis....
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....1933 in execution of the same decree the assessee put the house at Lohar Gali to sale and purchased it for ₹ 1,700. The value of the Shankerganj property was fixed at the figure of ₹ 72,637. This meant that the property was actually purchased for ₹ 73,837 out of which ₹ 1,200 was adjusted towards the decretal amount. The assessee had for the assessment year 1934-35 returned an income of ₹ 35,414. No income in this return related to the transactions which we have already mentioned. Nothing was said in the return about the purchase of village Sahil or the purchase of Shankerganj property or the purchase of the house in Lohar Gali. The Incometax Officer was of the opinion that when village Sahil was purchased for ₹ 56,000 the capital of ₹ 40,000 was wiped out and there was a clear profit of ₹ 16,000. He also thought that there was a profit of ₹ 1,700 when the house in Lohar Gali was purchased. In connection With the purchase of the Shankerganj property he was of the opinion That there was a profit of ₹ 1,200 and further a profit of ₹ 7,000 odd, The difference between the amount of the usufructuary mortgage (₹ 65,....
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....November 1932 to November 1933 were not so small as to have escaped the attention of the assessee. He agreed with the Income-tax Officer in the view that the assessee had deliberately omitted certain items and the penal assessment was rightly made. As we have mentioned before, the Assistant Income-tax Commissioner held that the income of ₹ 16,000 realised in December 1929 should not be considered in the present assessment and he, therefore, reduced the penalty also from ₹ 2,500 to ₹ 2,000. When the matter went before the Commissioner in connection with the application under Section 33 he gave effect to the contention of the assessee that a certain sum of ₹ 2,000 collected before the suit was filed in the year 1924 should not be taken into consideration and the assessable income was therefore reduced further and relief to that extent was given to the assessee. The penalty was also reduced from ₹ 2,000 to ₹ 1,200 but on the question of concealment he thought that the question was a question of fact into which he could go neither in proceedings under Section 33 nor could he refer the matter to this Court under Section 66(2). We have taken some pai....
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....it was received in 1929 the Income-tax Officer's estimate of income was reduced by ₹ 16,000 only, although as a matter of fact it ought to have been reduced by ₹ 36,000. Reliance was placed upon the case of the Commissioner of Income-tax, Bihar and Orissa v. Kameshwar Singh of Darbhanga [1933] A.L.J.R. 527; 1 I.T.R. 94. It may be observed that this point was nowhere taken by the assessee till it was taken for the first time before us in the course of argument. Apart from that, whatever may be the right of the assessee so far as appropriation is concerned, when a sum of money is paid in cash by the debtor to the creditor, but when property is purchased in satisfaction of the debt, the law has been clearly laid down in the case of Raghunandan Prasad v. The Commissioner of Income-tax [1933] 1 I.T.R. 113. The assesSee received a transfer of the property at the value of the purchase price In satisfaction pro tanto of the liability of the mortgagors for principal And interest and to the extent therefore that the purchase price exceeded the principal sum due there was a realisation of interest, that is, a payment of interest. We have thought fit to refer this contention ou....