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Commissioner Of Income-Tax, Delhi vs Aryodaya Ginning And Manufacturing Co. ... on 23 August, 1956

It is well known that the accounts of the company have to be made up for a year up to a particular day. In this case that day was the 31st March, 1963. If it was reasonably practicable to make up the accounts up to the 31st March 1963 and present the same to the directors of the respondent on April 1, 1963 they could have made up their minds on that day and declared their intention of appropriating the said and other sums to reserves of different kinds. But the fact that they could not do so for the simple reason that the calculation and collection of figures of all the items of income, expenditure of the company for the year ending March 31, 1963 was bound to take some time cannot make any difference to the nature or quality of the appropriation of the profits to reserves as determined by the directors after the first of April, 1963. Their determination to appropriate the sums mentioned to the three separate classes of reserves on the 8th August 1963 must be related to the 1st of April 1963 i.e. the beginning of the accounts for the new year and must be treated as effective from that day. A case very similar to the one before us came up for consi- deration before the Bombay High Court in Commissioner of In- come-tax, Delhi v. Aryodya Ginning & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (1) In that case the profits of the company for the year ended 31st December 1948 were shown as Rs. 28,56,997-14-2. The directors made certain appropriations which included Rs. 11,08,000 to reserve fund and Rs. 1,50,000 to dividend reserve fund. The report of the directors was made on April 27, 1949 and a general meeting of the shareholders held on 27th June 1949 adopted the report and recommendation of the directors. The company was assessed to business profits tax chargeable under the Business Profits Tax Act for the accounting period 1st January to 31st March 1949 and the question which arose was: what was the capital of the com- pany for the accounting period. The company contended that its paid-up capital should be increased by the amount of reserves constituted by the recommendation made by the directors and accepted by the share-holders. The Commissioner of Income-tax went up to the High Court on a reference contending that as the reserve was not sanctioned till 27th June 1949 it could not be looked (1) 31 I.T.R. 145.

The Commissioner Of Income-Tax And ... vs The Vasantha Mills Limited on 20 March, 1957

The learned Solicitor-General referred to a judgment of the Madras High Court in Commissioner of Income-tax v. Vasantha Mills Ltd. (1) where the Madras High Court dissented from the view expressed by the Bombay High Court on the ground that there could be no reserve until there was allocation in fact by a person having the requisite authority to order that allocation. In our view, although such allocation was factually not possible on the very first day of a year but allocation on a later day should be treated as effective from that day in view of the fact that the division of undistributed profits became effective from that day.
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