COURT: | Supreme Court |
CORAM: | A.K. Sikri J., Ashok Bhushan J |
SECTION(S): | 115-O, Constitution of India |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | constitution, constitutional validity, DDT, Dividend Distribution Tax |
COUNSEL: | S. Ganesh |
DATE: | September 20, 2017 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | September 23, 2017 (Date of publication) |
AY: | - |
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S. 115-O Dividend Distribution Tax: Entire law on the constitutional validity of Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) under Article 246 of the Constitution read with Entry 82 of List I and Entry 46 of List II in the Seventh Schedule and whether tea companies are liable for the tax on only 40% of the dividend income explained |
This Court, however, while considering the nature of dividend in the above case held that although when the initial source which has produced the revenue is land used for agricultural purposes but to give to the words ‘revenue derived from land’, apart from its direct association or relation with the land, an unrestricted meaning shall be unwarranted. Again as noted above Nalin Behari Lal Singha (supra) observation was made that shares of its profits declared as distributable among the shareholders is not impressed with the character of the profit from which it reaches the hands of the shareholder. We, thus, find substances in the submission of the learned counsel for the Union of India that when the dividend is declared to be distributed and paid to company’s shareholder it is not impressed with character of source of its income
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