Southern Roadways Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax, Tamil ... on 16 December, 1980
70. Further, the Gujarat High Court in the decision in question, namely, CIT v. Mafatlal Chandulal & Co. [1977] 107 ITR 489 had not given full effect to the decision of the Supreme Court in Mysore Electrical Industries Ltd.'s case [1971] 80 ITR 566. The Supreme Court had held that when the resolution of the general body meeting creating a reserve out of the profits of a company for the concerned year will relate back to the first day of the succeeding year, there is no justification on principle for holding that the resolution of the same general body meeting of the company regarding declaration of dividend will not have such an effect. As we have pointed out already, the fact that the reserve will remain in the coffers of the company and the dividend will go out of the coffers of the company to the shareholders and, consequently, when the company decides to declare a dividend, it undertakes an obligation towards the shareholders, will not in any way affect the position, because the relation back in question either with regard to "reserve" or with regard to declaration of dividend is solely for the purpose of computation of the capital under the Second Schedule to the Act and not for any other purpose.