Frontier Offshore Exploration (India) ... vs The Dy. Cit on 28 February, 2007
10. Next, the ld. senior counsel referred to Transmission Corporation of AP Ltd. v. CIT (supra) and submitted that since the assessee as well as the Department are relying on this decision, it would be appropriate to analyse the decision in detail and for that he submitted that he would like to start with the decision rendered by the Andhra Pradesh High Court where the case was titled as CIT v. Superintending Engineer 152 ITR 753 (AP). In that case, the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board ("Electricity Board" for short) made payments to three foreign parties on which no tax was deducted. In case of one party, the Electricity Board had made an application Under Section 195(2). During the proceedings Under Section 201, the Assessing Officer estimated the tax to be deducted on whole of the payments in respect of two foreign parties, where no application was made and in case where application was made, the profit was estimated and tax to he deducted was determined. Various questions were raised before the Hon'ble Andhra Pradesh High Court, but the ld. Counsel of the assessee pointed out that ultimately the court itself refrained the questions by observing that two fundamental questions arise and the questions were reframed as under: