{"id":35804,"date":"1978-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1978-08-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-gift-tax-vs-ram-kishan-on-24-august-1978"},"modified":"2018-05-01T21:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:06:47","slug":"commissioner-of-gift-tax-vs-ram-kishan-on-24-august-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-gift-tax-vs-ram-kishan-on-24-august-1978","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Gift-Tax vs Ram Kishan on 24 August, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Commissioner Of Gift-Tax vs Ram Kishan on 24 August, 1978<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1979 120 ITR 589 All<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S Chandra<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Chandra, M Farooqi<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Satish Chandra, C.J.  <\/p>\n<p>1. The question of law referred for our consideration is:\n<\/p>\n<p>  &#8221; Whether the Tribunal was right in holding that no gift-tax is leviable in the present case ? &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The assessee is a HUF and the relevant assessment year is 1971-72. The assessee-HUF had 78 acres of agricultural land and the same was<\/p>\n<p>assessed as part of its wealth for the assessment year 1970-71. During the year in question Ram Kishan, the karta, executed six different documents called deeds of gifts in favour of each of his five sons and one widow of his pre-deceased son. The gift deeds were registered on 21st April, 1970. As a result of this an area of only 11 acres was left with the karta. The GTO effected the assessment treating the entire value of the subject-matter to tax. On appeal, the AAC annulled the assessment. The revenue moved a second appeal before the Tribunal. The Tribunal held that the transaction was a sort of family settlement by partial partition. By this the co-sharers in the family were allowed shares, though they were themselves co-owners. The documents could not hence be validly called gifts. The different portions of land were marked and were given to five sons and to the widow of a pre-deceased son. We have no hesitation in holding that the Tribunal has committed no error in holding that the transaction was one of family settlement. In that view, the transfers could not validly be treated as deeds of gifts. In this view, it is not necessary to decide on the alternative plea that the karta of a HUF cannot gift his immovable property to his family members.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. In the result, we answer the question in the affirmative, in favour of the assessee and against the department. The assessee is entitled to costs which are assessed at Rs. 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Commissioner Of Gift-Tax vs Ram Kishan on 24 August, 1978 Equivalent citations: 1979 120 ITR 589 All Author: S Chandra Bench: S Chandra, M Farooqi JUDGMENT Satish Chandra, C.J. 1. The question of law referred for our consideration is: &#8221; Whether the Tribunal was right in holding that no gift-tax is leviable [&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":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-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 Gift-Tax vs Ram Kishan on 24 August, 1978 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-gift-tax-vs-ram-kishan-on-24-august-1978\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commissioner Of Gift-Tax vs Ram Kishan on 24 August, 1978 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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