Law: Wealth Tax Act, 1957

Section: 5(IA),27(1)

Wealth tax------Exemption---Firm---Partner entitled to exemption in respect of agricultural lands held by firm to extent of his share---Indian Wealth Tax Act, 1957, S.5(1)(iva). Held, that the assessee who was a partner of a firm vas entitled to exemption in respect of the agricultural lands held by the firm to the extent of his share in the net wealth of the partnership firm. R. Venkatavaradha Reddiar v. CWT (1995) 214 ITR 76 (Mad 1 fol. JUDGMENT N. V. BALASUBRAMANIAN, J.---The assessee is a partner of a firm The firm owned certain assets eligible for exemption under section 5(IA) of the Wealth Tax Act, 1957 in the wealth tax assessment of the assessee for the year 1976-77; the Wealth Tax Officer valued the agricultural lands owned by the firm in which the assessee is a partner, but did not grant exemption under section 5(1)(iva) of the Wealth Tax Act, on the ground that the assessee was trot the owner of the agricultural lands and that the assessee was not having any specific interest in the assets of the partnership. On appeal, the Appellate Assistant Commissioner allowed the exemption under section 5(1)(iva) of the Act as claimed by the assessee. The Appellate Tribunal on further appeal by the Department dismissed the appeal holding that the assessee is entitled to exemption under section 5(1)(iva) of the Wealth Tax Act. The above order of the Tribunal is the subject-matter of reference and the following question of law has been referred to us for our consideration under section 27(1) of the Wealth Tax Act: "Whether the deduction under section 5(1A) in respect of the assets belonging to a firm should be allowed in the hands of the firm only in computing the deemed net wealth of the firm in terms of rule 2 of the Wealth Tax Rules and not in the hands of each individual partner?" We are of the opinion that the reference to section 5(1A) in…

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