Income-Tax Officer vs Khushi Ram And Sons on 9 June, 1989
4. It would be sufficient if I refer to the judgment of the Honourable Madhya Pradesh High Court in the case of CIT v. Life Insurance Corporation of India. In that case, in accordance with the provisions of Section 206 of the Act, the Divisional Manager of the Life Insurance Company of India, Sagar filed for the assessment year 1977-78, the annual return of salary in respect of its employees showing the amount of tax deductible under Section 192 of the Act. The ITO noticing that tax was not properly deducted in the case of some of the employees recomputed the income of those employees and demanded under Section 201 of the Act, the additional tax that should have been deducted under Section 201 of the Act by the LIC. The CIT(A), however, allowed the first appeal because the employees had paid their proper taxes. The Tribunal though dismissed the Revenue's appeals but gave reference of the following reproduced question under Section 256(1) of the Act:-,
Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was right in law in holding that where regular assessment of an employee has been completed and the amount of tax fully paid by him, the ITO(TDS) has no jurisdiction under Section 201 of the Act, 1961, to demand further tax from the employer in respect of the tax short deducted relating to such employed?