{"id":8799,"date":"2001-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-mercantile-credit-corporation-on-14-february-2001"},"modified":"2018-08-29T04:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T23:01:27","slug":"commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-mercantile-credit-corporation-on-14-february-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-mercantile-credit-corporation-on-14-february-2001","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Mercantile Credit Corporation &#8230; on 14 February, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Mercantile Credit Corporation &#8230; on 14 February, 2001<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2001 252 ITR 87 Mad<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: K Gnanaprakasam<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R J Babu, K Gnanaprakasam<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>  K. Gnanaprakasam, J.  <\/p>\n<p> 1.  At the instance of the Revenue, the following question 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 law in holding that the assessee was entitled to investment allowance even though there is no activity of manufacturing or production of any article by the assessee ?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> 2. A similar question came to be decided by this court in CIT v. S. Devaki [2000] 244 ITR 669, wherein the question has been answered in favour of the assessee and against the Revenue. <\/p>\n<p> 3. Applying the principles laid down in the abovesaid decision, we also answer the question referred to us in favour of the assessee and against the Revenue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Mercantile Credit Corporation &#8230; on 14 February, 2001 Equivalent citations: 2001 252 ITR 87 Mad Author: K Gnanaprakasam Bench: R J Babu, K Gnanaprakasam JUDGMENT K. Gnanaprakasam, J. 1. At the instance of the Revenue, the following question 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-8799","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 Income-Tax vs Mercantile Credit Corporation ... on 14 February, 2001 - 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-income-tax-vs-mercantile-credit-corporation-on-14-february-2001\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Mercantile Credit Corporation ... on 14 February, 2001 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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