Financial non-viability, The expression 'financial non-viability' has not been defined in the Income Tax Act but the Finance Minister's speech, the Notes on Clauses of the Bill and the Memorandum explaining the provisions thereof make it clear that the financial non-viability of an undertaking has been equated with the 'sickness' of such undertak-ing and obviously in the context of its revival by a sound undertaking the sickness must be of a temporary character and not any basic or permanent sickness. An undertaking which is basically or potentially non-viable will ordinarily be incapable of revival and would face a closure; in other words, the financial non-viability spoken of by the s. must refer to sickness brought about by temporary adverse financial circumstances that disables the unit to stand and work on its own. Since the expression is occurring in a taxing statute in the context of amalgamation of companies it will have to be understood in its popular sense, that is to say, the sense or meaning that is attributed to it by men of business, trade or commerce and by persons or institutions interested in or dealing with companies, Commissioner of Income Tax v. Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd,. AIR 1984 SC 1182: (1983) 4 SCC 392: (1983) 3 SCR 773.
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