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TMI Blog2009 (2) TMI 19X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ilding has not been charged for wealth-tax? (2) Whether the Tribunal was right in law in holding that the approach road and internal roads are treated as part of the building for the purpose of depreciation under the Income-tax Act, 1961 and therefore, the assessee is the owner of the land ? 2. The brief facts of the case were as under:- (a) The applicant company was the owner of a plot of land with several structures standing thereon. For the assessment year 1990-91, an assessment was filed by the assessee detailing the details of the user of the aforesaid open plot of land. These details as shown by the assessee were as follows:- Buildings :- (1) Land surrendered to the Municipal Corpn. for Road widening in frong 313.155 M2 (2) Lan ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ore, requested for a reference and the questions already mentioned here-in-above have been therefore, referred. 3. It is a common ground that for the relevant year, wealth tax in respect of the assessee company was chargeable in accordance with section 40 of the Wealth Tax Act which was introduced by the Finance Act 1983. Section 40(3) set out assets which were chargeable to wealth tax and section 40(3)(vi) was in the following terms :- (vi) building or land appurtenant thereto, other than building or part thereof used by the assessee as factory, godown, warehouse, hotel or office for the purposes of its business or as residential accommodation for its employees or as a hospital, creche, school, canteen, library, recreational centre, shel ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ; State of U.P. & Ors. reported in AIR 1997 SC 875. That judgment also pertains to the definition of vacant land as contained in the Urban Land Ceiling Act. In our view, it would have no bearing on the issue in question. 5. In our view, therefore, issue no.1 is required to be answered in the affirmative and in favour of revenue. 6. In so far as question no.2 is concerned, it is seen from the record that the assessee himself has never controverted the fact that he was the owner of the entire plot with the structures standing thereon. Since his ownership of the plot in question is admitted, such ownership will include the ownership of the internal roads and approach roads which fall within the plot. It appears that the second question ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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