
P L D 1990 SC 399
EDULJI DINSHAW LIMITED
V/S
INCOME-TAX OFFICER
Pre Abdul Kadir Shaik, J.(a) Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art.185(3)—
r/w Income-Tex Ordinance (XXXI of 1979)—S. 65— That the Income-tax Officer in seeking to reopen the past assessments for the last 9 years under section 65 of the Income-tax Ordinance, 979 acted beyond his jurisdiction because all material facts were already on the record of the Income-tax Department on the basis of which his predecessors had held that the petitioner was liable to be assessed as a property holding company i.e. a Company not carrying on the business of buying and selling properties. There was no suppression or concealment of any facts but merely a change of opinion by the respondent, Income-tax Officer, as to the inference to be drawn from the same facts. There was, thus, no legal basis for proceeding under section 65 of the Income-tax Ordinance. That the assessment orders passed by the Income-tax Officer on 26-12-1982 are not valid and legal, because they were passed after the issuance of the stay order by this Court (on 23-12-1982). In so far as a stay order is operative and takes effect as soon as it is passed, vide 1974 S C M R 509, the circumstance that it might have been communicated to the respondent Income-tax officer after he had passed his assessment Advocate for the appellants: Advocate for the Respondent: |
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