Dulichand Lakshminarayan vs The Commissioner Of Income-Tax,Nagpur on 17 February, 1956
6. In our opinion, this finding of the Tribunal, which has been relied upon by the assessee, makes its case even more difficult. A Hindu undivided family is allowed to deduct salaries paid to members of the family, if the payment is made as a matter of commercial or business expediency; but the service must be to the family. It was held by this court in Dulichand Laxminarayan v. Commissioner of Income-tax , that "partnership" being the relation between persons, who have agreed to share the profits of a business carried on by all or any of them acting for all, and "persons" who enter into the partnership being called individually "partners" or collectively "a firm" the word "person" contemplates only natural or artificial, i.e., legal persons and neither a firm nor a Hindu undivided family can be that person.