{"id":134766,"date":"1998-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-11-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-wealth-tax-vs-m-v-ar-meenakshi-on-2-november-1998"},"modified":"2015-02-25T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T07:43:09","slug":"commissioner-of-wealth-tax-vs-m-v-ar-meenakshi-on-2-november-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-wealth-tax-vs-m-v-ar-meenakshi-on-2-november-1998","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Wealth-Tax vs M.V.Ar. Meenakshi on 2 November, 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Commissioner Of Wealth-Tax vs M.V.Ar. Meenakshi on 2 November, 1998<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2001 247 ITR 689 Mad<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: A Subbulakshmy<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R J Babu, A Subbulakshmy<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>   A. Subbulakshmy, J.  <\/p>\n<p> 1. At the instance of the Revenue, the following question of law has been referred to us :\n<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Appellate Tribunal was correct in holding that the sum of Rs. 22,83,000 being the sales tax penalty should be allowed as a liability while valuing the unquoted equity shares under Rule 1D of the Wealth-tax Rules, 1957 ?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. The assessee claimed that the sum of Rs. 22,83,000 being the sales tax penalty should be allowed as a liability while valuing her shares under Rule 1D of the &#8220;Wealth-tax Rules. This claim was rejected by the Wealth-tax Officer. On appeal, the Appellate Assistant Commissioner directed the Wealth-tax Officer to allow this liability in valuing the shares in view of his decision in the case of M. V. Arunachalam, another shareholder and also following the Tribunal&#8217;s order in the case of M.V. Seetha Sub-biah decided on May 12, 1987, for the assessment years 1981-82 and 1980-81. On appeal, the Tribunal dismissed the Department&#8217;s appeal confirming the order of the Appellate Assistant Commissioner.\n<\/p>\n<p> 3. A similar question in the case of CWT v. M. V. Arunachalam [2000] 241 ITR 686 (Mad), was considered and held that the order of the Tribunal cannot be ignored in determining the quantum of liability of the company that it would be a relevant piece of evidence to determine the value of liabilities as provided in Rule 1D and that, therefore, the Tribunal should go into the question again and determine what was the exact quantum of sales tax liability towards penalty on the valuation date and, on that basis, direct the Wealth-tax Officer to determine the value of the shares in terms of Rule 1D.\n<\/p>\n<p> 4. Following the above decision and for the reasons stated therein, we remit the matter back to the Appellate Tribunal to go into the question again and determine what was the exact quantum of sales tax liability towards penalty on the valuation date and, on that basis, direct the Wealth-tax Officer to determine the value of the shares in terms of Rule 1D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Commissioner Of Wealth-Tax vs M.V.Ar. Meenakshi on 2 November, 1998 Equivalent citations: 2001 247 ITR 689 Mad Author: A Subbulakshmy Bench: R J Babu, A Subbulakshmy JUDGMENT A. Subbulakshmy, J. 1. At the instance of the Revenue, the following question of law has been referred to us : &#8220;Whether, on the facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commissioner Of Wealth-Tax vs M.V.Ar. 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