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1995 (7) TMI 19

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..... -tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as " the Act "), is the same. All the tax cases have been preferred by the Revenue and the assessee in all the three cases is the same, viz., the Tamil Nadu Textile Corporation, Coimbatore. Tax Case No. 477 of 1985 relates to the assessment year 1978-79, Tax Case No. 478 of 1985 relates to the assessment year 1979-80 and Tax Case No. 322 of 1986 relates to .....

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..... tituted : " total income (computed before making any deduction under this clause and Chapter VI-A)." (emphasis supplied). Thus, by the abovesaid amendment of 1985, the abovesaid percentage of deduction under the said clause has been expressly stated as having to be computed on the total income as computed before making any deduction not only under Chapter VI-A, but also under the said clause. .....

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..... wanted to introduce the expression " under this clause " in the said section 36(1)(viii). That is one reason for the Karnataka High Court in Karnataka State Financial Corporation v. CIT [1988] 174 ITR 206 holding that prior to the said amendment of 1985, for computing the abovesaid percentage of deduction, the total income should be only that " total income " as defined under section 2(45) of the .....

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..... ia, relied on the expression " unless the context otherwise requires " appearing in the main part of section 2 of the Act (i.e., before the said section embarks on defining certain expressions used in the enactment, including the abovesaid expression " total income "). In other words, according to those decisions, contextually, the expression " total income " appearing in section 36(1)(viii) shoul .....

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