Law: Income Tax Act, 1961

Section: 143,214(1)&256

Income-tax----Reference---Advance tax---Interest payable by Government---Interest on excess payment of advance tax limited to period up to the date of first assessment---Meaning of "regular assessment" under S.214(1)---"Regular assessment" means first original assessment under S.143/144---Indian Income Tax Act, :961, Ss.214(1) & 256. An assessee, who pays advance tax, when it exceeds the assessed tax, is entitled to interest on such excess amount from the 1st day of April next following the said financial year to the date of "regular assessment". The question raised by the assessee was whether the expression "regular assessment" used in section 214(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, refers to the first original assessment made by the Income-tax Officer under section 143 or 144 of the Act and not to an order giving effect to the appellate order. The Tribunal held that the liability under section 214, as it stood before the amendment in 1984, to pay interest on the advance tax paid is limited to the period up to the date of first assessment under section 143 or section 144 of the Act and on the amount found to be in excess on that date and interest is not enhanced on reduction of tax liability by a revised order. On an application to direct reference: Held, dismissing the application for reference, that the Tribunal was right in holding that the expression "regular assessment" in section 214(1) refers to the first original assessment made by the Income-tax Officer under section 1:13 or 144 and not to an order giving effect to the appellate order. Modi Industries Ltd. v. CIT (1995) 216 ITR 759 (SC) applied. C.I.T. v. G.B. Transports (1985) 1554TR 548 (Ker.) ref. JUDGMENT G. SIVARAJAN, J. ---In this petition under section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the assessee seeks reference to the following question, as one arising out of the appellate order of the Tribunal: "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal was right in holding that the expression 'regular assessment' in section 214(1) refers to the first original assessment made by the Income-tax Officer under section 143 or 144 and not to an order giving…

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