Summarize the following court judgment. ivil Appeal No. 381 of 1956. Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated February 24	 1955	 of the Bombay High Court in Income Tax Reference No. 52/X of 1954. N. A. Palkhivala (with him	 Jamshedji B. Kanga)	 section N. Andley	 J. B. Dadachanji	 P. L. Vohra and Rameshwar Nath	 for the appellant. H. N. Sanyal	 Additional Solicitor General of India	 G. N. Joshi and R. H. Dhebar	 for the respondent. May 12. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by VENKATARAMA AIYAR J. This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Bombay in a reference under section 66(1) of the Indian Income tax Act	 1922	 hereinafter referred to as the Act. The appellant is a private limited company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act	 and is carrying on business as marine engineers and ship repairers. Its registered office is in Bombay and it is resident and ordinarily resident in India. Its entire share capital is beneficially owned by two British companies	 the P. & 0. Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.	 and the British Indian Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.	 whose business 850 consists in plying ships for hire. Under an agreement entered into with the two companies aforesaid	 which will be referred to hereinafter as the non resident companies; the appellant repairs their ships at cost	 and charges no profits. Now	 the point for determination is whether	 on these facts	 the appellant is chargeable to tax under section 42(2) of the Act. That sub section runs as follows: " Where a person not resident or not ordinarily resident in the taxable territories carries on business with a person resident in the taxable territories	 and it appears to the Income tax Officer that owing to the close connection between such persons the course of business is so arranged that the business done by the resident person with the person not resident or not ordinarily resident produces to the resident either DO profits or less than the ordinary profits which might be expected to arise in that business	 the profits derived therefrom	 or which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived therefrom	 shall be chargeable to income tax in the name of the resident person who shall be deemed to be	 for all the purposes of this Act	 the assessee in respect of such income tax. " The Income tax Officer	 Bombay who dealt with the matter took the view that the appellant company had so arranged its business with the non resident companies that it did not produce any profits to it	 and that was because it was those companies that really owned its share capital	 and that therefore the profits which it could ordinarily have made but for their close financial connection were liable to be taxed under section 42(2)	 and he computed the same at Rs. 6	80	000 for the account year 1943 1944	 at Rs. 4	67	559 for the account year 1944 1945 and at Rs. 4	68	963 for the account year 1945 46. On the basis of the above findings	 orders of assessment of income tax were made for the account years 1944 1945 and 1945 1946 and of excess profits tax for the account years 1943 1944	 1944 1945 and 1945 1946. Against these five orders	 the appellant preferred appeals to the Appellate Assistant Commissioner	 who by his 851 order dated July 3	 1952	 confirmed the same. Then there was a further appeal by the appellant to the Appellate Tribunal	 and the Bench which heard the same having been divided in its opinion	 the matters came up for hearing before the President	 who by his order dated March 19	 1954	 held that section 42(2) was inapplicable and he accordingly set aside the orders of assessment of income tax and excess profits tax made on the appellant. On the application of the Department	 the Tribunal referred the following question for the opinion of the High Court of Bombay: " Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case any income falls to be included in the appellant 's assessment under section 42(2). " The reference was heard by Chagla C. J. and Tendolkar J. who by their judgment dated February 24	 1955	 held that	 on the facts found	 section 42(2) was applicable and that the appellant was liable to be assessed to income tax and excess profits tax under that section. The appellant applied under section 66(A) for leave to appeal against this judgment to this court	 and that application was dismissed. The appellant thereafter applied for and obtained leave to appeal to this Court under article 136	 and hence this appeal. It must be mentioned that on December 31	 1948	 an order of assessment bad been made in respect of the income tax payable by the appellant for the account year 1943 1944	 and therein	 the profits chargeable under section 42(2) had not been included. But subsequently	 the Income tax Officer took action under section 34 of the Act	 and on May 29	 1953	 made an order assessing the appellant to tax for that year on the profits deemed to have been made by it under section 42(2)	 and against that order	 an appeal is pending before the Appellate Assistant Commissioner. That order is not the subject matter of the present proceedings	 which are concerned only with the assessment of income tax for the account years 1944 1945 and 1945 1946 and of excess profits tax for the account years 1943 1944	 1944 1945 and 1945 1946. Now	 the sole point for determination in this appeal is whether on the facts found the appellant is chargeable to tax under section 42 (2) of the Act. Mr. Palkhivala	 852 learned counsel for the appellant	 contends that it is not	 and urges two grounds in support of his contention: (1) that section 42(2) imposes a charge only on a business carried on by a nonresident	 and that therefore no tax could be imposed under that provision on the business of the appellant who is a resident; and (2) that it is a condition for the levy of a charge under s.42 (2) that the non resident must carry on business with the resident	 and that in the instant case it is not satisfied. The first ground does not appear to have been put forward in the Court below	 but before us it has been presented with great elaboration and pressed with considerable insistence. The argument in support of it may thus be stated: section 42 (2) imposes a charge on profits of a business	 actual or notional	 when the conditions specified therein are satisfied; but the section does not	 in terms	 say who the person is whose business is liable to be taxed	 but that that can only be the non resident is clear from other parts of the section. Thus	 the tax is imposed under section 42 (2) on profits " derived " from business	 which must mean profits actually made therein. Ex hypothesi	 the resident has so arranged his business that it produces little or no profits to him. If it has produced some profits	 then they are taxable in his hands even apart from this provision	 and if he has made no profits	 then the word " derived " would be inapplicable to his business. Therefore	 the profits " derived " and taxable under the section can have reference only to the business of a non resident. Then again	 the profits are chargeable under this section in the name of the resident. If the profits chargeable under section 42(2) accrue from a business of the resident	 he would be the person who would	 even apart from the section	 be liable for the tax	 and in that situation	 the expression " in the name of the resident " would be inappropriate. It would make sense if	 in fact	 the profits accrued in a business carried on by a person other than the resident	 and the legislature sought to tax them in his hands. The true intention behind the legislation	 it is said	 is that the profits of the non resident should be taxed	 but that the tax should fall on the resident by reason of his 853 close connection with the nonresident. Support for this contention is sought in the provision in section 42 (2) that the resident shall be deemed to be the assessee for all purposes of the Act. The word " deemed " imports	 it is argued	 a legal fiction	 and if it was the	 business of the resident that was intended to be taxed	 then he is	 in fact	 the assessee	 and it would be ' inconsistent with that position that he should be treated as an assessee by a legal fiction. It is also urged that sub sections (1) and (3) of section 42 deal with the profits of a nonresident and prescribe the conditions under which and the manner in which the tax could be imposed and collected	 and section 42 (2) must in this setting	 be construed as referring to the business of the nonresident. There would have been considerable force in this argument	 had there been any ambiguity or undertainty in the wording of section 42 (2) as to whether it is the business of the resident that is sought to be taxed or that of the nonresident. But that is not so. The language of the enactment imposing the charge is too plain to admit of any doubt. Now	 section 42 (2) is	 it may be noted	 in two parts. The first part commencing with the opening words " Where a person not resident " and ending with the words " which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived therefrom " prescribes the conditions on which the charge arises. It does not of itself impose the charge. That is done by the second part	 which provides that "the profits derived therefrom or which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived therefrom shall be chargeable to income tax. " The word " therefrom " is very important for the purpose of the present discussion. In the context	 it can refer only to the business of the resident	 and it is this business therefore that is the subject of the charge under section 42 (2) It was suggested for the appellant that the word therefrom " has reference to the arrangement between the nonresident and the resident	 but apart from the fact that such a construction would	 on the grammar of it	 be untenable	 :it is impossible to conceive how an arrangement relating to the conduct of business can	 as such	 be the 854 subject matter of income tax	 apart from the business in which profits or gains are made. The language of the section is clear beyond all reasonable doubt as to what it is that is sought to be taxed under this section. That is only the business of the resident and not that of the nonresident. In this view	 it is only necessary to consider whether there is anything in the wording of the other parts of section 42 (2) relied on for the appellant	 which precludes us from giving effect to the plain import of the word " therefrom ". It is on the expression "profits derived" in the charging part of the enactment that the appellant leans heavily in support of his position that it is the business of the non resident that is really intended to be taxed. But then	 those words do not stand alone. They are associated with the words " or which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived "	 and this association has its origin in the preceding clause produces to the resident either no profits or less than the ordinary profits which might be expected to arise in that business ". This clause contemplates two classes of cases	 one where the business of the resident produces no profits and the other where it produces less than the normal profits. The charge is imposed on both these classes of cases	 and the word " derived " has reference to the latter	 while the words " profits which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived " relate to the former. That both these clauses relate to the business of the resident is clear from the words " to the resident " occurring therein. The word " derived " in section 42 (2) must therefore be interpreted as referring to the business of the resident. The respondent sought further support for this conclusion in the words " which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived" in section 42(2)	 and contended that those words could apply only to a business which does not yield profits	 and that will fit in	 in the context	 only with the business of the resident and not of the non resident. The answer of the appellant to this contention is that the words in question should be construed as meaning not notional profits but such proportion of the actual profits of the nonresident as 855 could reasonably be apportioned to the business in India. Reliance was placed in support of this contention on Rr. 33 and 34 of the Indian Income tax Rules	 1922. Rule 33 provides for the determination of the profits of a non resident in cases falling within section 42(1)	 and one of the modes prescribed for such determination is to fix an amount which bears the ' same proportion to the total profits of the non resident as the Indian receipts bear to the total receipts in the business. Rule 34 then provides that "the profits derived from any business carried on in the manner referred to in section 42 (2) may be determined for the purposes of assessment to income tax according to the preceding rule ". Now	 the argument of Mr. Palkhivala is that the interpretation put on section 42 (2) by the rule making authorities as manifest in R. 34 is that the business chargeable under section 42 (2) is that of the non resident	 and that the words " which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived therefrom " had reference to the apportionment of the Indian	 out of the total profits. We see no force in this contention. There is nothing in R. 34 to justify the assumption that the rule making authorities considered either that section 42 (2) applied to the business of a non resident or that the words " which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived therefrom " meant apportionment of the Indian out of the world profits of the non resi. And even if those. be the assumptions on which the Rule is based	 that can have no effect on the true interpretation of section 42 (2). And whatever doubts one migt have had as to the meaning to be given to the words " derived therefrom or which may reasonably be deemed to have been. derived therefrom " if they had to be construed in isolation	 in the context.of the section and read in conjunction with the. words " to the resident " and " therefrom "	 there cannot be any doubt that they have reference to the business of the resident and not that of the non resident. The word " or " in the clause would appear to be rather inappropriate	 as it is susceptible of the interpretation that when some profits are made but they log 856 are less than the normal profits	 tax could only be imposed either on the one or on the other	 and that accordingly a tax on the actual profits earned would bar the imposition of tax on profits which might have been received. Obviously	that could not have been intended	 and the word " or " would have to be read in the context as meaning " and ". Vide Maxwell 's Interpretation of Statutes	 Tenth Edn. 238 239. But that	 however	 does not affect the present question which is whether the word " derived " indubitably points to the business of the nonresident as the one taxable under section 42 (2)	 and for the reasons already given	 the answer must be in the negative. The appellant also relied on the clauses in section 42 (2) that the profits shall be chargeable to tax in the name of the resident ' and that he shall be deemed to be the assessee for all purposes of the Act ' as indicating that it is not the business of the resident that is really sought to be taxed. But these clauses are explainable with reference to the fact that the profits taxed are not actual profits but what are deemed to be profits. It was argued that if it was the intention of the legislature that what was not profits should be deemed to be profits	 that should have been independently provided for before the tax is imposed	 and that in the absence of such a provision	 the word " deemed " must be construed as referring not to notional profits being treated as actual profits	 but to a person who is not	 in fact	 an assessee	 being treated as an assessee. We see no substance in this argument. There is no reason why an enactment should not both declare notional profits as taxable profits and at the same time impose a charge on the resident in respect of those profits	 and that	 quite clearly	 is what section 42 (2) has done. It may be that its language is not felicitous. But there can	 however	 be no mistaking its sense that it is the resident that is to be dealt with as assessee in respect of profits which he had not	 in fact	 made. Nor do we see much force in the argument that section 42	 sub sections (1) and (3) relate to income of the nonresident and that section 42(2) which is wedged in between them should therefore be interpreted as having 857 reference to the profits of the non resident. If the language of section 42(2) is clear that it is the resident who is chargeable to tax	 it is of no consequence that under section 42	 sub sections (1) and (3) it is the non resident that is taxed. It should be remembered that section 42 occurs in Ch. V headed " Liability in Special Cases "	 and section 42(2) is a liability which is out of the ordinary run	 and it is not inappropriate to deal with it in section 42	 because while section 42(1) seeks to bring within the ambit of taxation the profits of a non resident which accrue in India	 section 42(2) seeks to tax the resident in respect of profits which he would have normally made but for his business association with a non resident. On the other hand	 on the construction contended for by the appellant section 42(2) would become practically useless because a non resident whose profits could be taxed under section 42(2) could also be taxed under section 42(1)	 as also the resident if he were the agent. None of the considerations put forward by the appellant is of sufficient weight to displace the conclusion to be drawn from the words " to the resident " and " therefrom " in section 42(2)	 and we must hold that the business which is the subject matter of taxation under that provision is that of the resident and not of a non resident. This contention must accordingly be found against the appellant. We shall next consider the second ground urged in support of the appeal that it is a condition for the levy of a charge under section 42(2) that a non resident should carry on business with the resident	 and that	 on the facts found	 that condition is not satisfied	 and that therefore the tax is unauthorised. It is argued that the business of the non resident companies is to ply ships for hire	 and that the appellant has no concern with that; that the business of the appellant is to repair ships and that the non resident companies have no connection with that business; and that all that the non resident companies do is to get their ships repaired by the appellant	 and that does not amount to carrying on any business with the appellant. A person who regularly purchases his goods from a particular dealer does not	 it is said	 carry on business with 858 that dealer	 and on the same analogy	 in getting their ships repaired by the appellant the non resident companies cannot be said to carry on business with them in the real sense of that word. We are unable to agree with this contention. The word "business" is	 as has often been said	 one of wide import and in fiscal statutes	 it must be construed in a broad rather than a restricted sense. Discussing the connotation of the word trade"	 Scott L. J. observed in Smith Barry V. Cordy (1): " The history of judicial decisions has been similar	 showing a strong tendency not to restrict the scope of Schedule D; a tendency which was	 we think	 in sympathy with the general social and economic outlook of the country. There is hardly any activity for gaining a livelihood and not covered by the other Schedules	 which does not seem to us to be swept into the fiscal net by the Schedule D." 'The word business ' connotes"	 it was observed by this Court in Narain Swadeshi Weaving Mills vs The Commissioner of Excess Profits Tax (2)	 "some real	 substantial and systematic or organised course of activity or conduct with a set purpose. " Now	 it may be conceded that when a person purchases his requirements from a particular dealer	 he cannot without more be said to carry on business with him. But here there is much more. The non resident companies send their ships for repair to the appellant	 not as they might to any other repairer but under a special agreement that repairs should be done at cost. And further unlike customers who purchase goods for their own consumption or use	 the non resident companies get their ships repaired for use in what is admittedly their business. These are clearly trading activities	 organised and continuous in their character and it will be difficult to escape the conclusion that they constitute business. We are not even concerned in this appeal with the larger question whether the activities of the nonresident companies in connection with the repair of the ships amount to carrying on of business. What we have to decide is whether having regard to the (1) 	 259. (2) 	 961. 859 course of dealings between the non resident companies and the appellant it can be said of the former that they carry on business with the latter within the meaning of section 42(2). Now	 it should be observed that section 42 speaks not of the nonresidents carrying on business in the abstract but of their carrying on business with the resident	 and in the context	 it must include all activities between them having relationship to their business. That is the view taken by the learned Judges in the Court below	 and we are in agreement with it. In this connection	 reference may be made to section 42(1) under which a charge is imposed on income	 profits or gains accruing to a non resident through any business connection in the taxable territories. In Commissioner of Income tax vs Curimbhoy Ebrahim & Sons (1)	 it was observed by the Privy Council that business connection in section 42(1) is different from business as defined in section 4(2) of the Act. " The phrase business connection '	 observed Sir George Rankin	 " is different from	 though not unrelated to	 the word business ' of which there is a definition in the Act ". And in Anglo French Textile Co.	 Ltd. vs Commissioner of Income tax	 Madras (2)	 this Court has observed that " when there is a continuity of business relationship between the person in British India who helps to make the profits and the person outside British India who receives or realises his profits	 such relationship does constitute a business connection". Vide also the observations in Bangalore Woollen	 Cotton and Silk Mills Co. Ltd. vs Commissioner of Income tax	 Madras (3 ). The words "where a person not resident in the taxable territories carries on business with a person resident" in section 42(2) must be similarly interpreted	 and a non resident should be held to carry on business with a resident	 if the dealings between them form concerted and organised activities of a business character. We are accordingly of opinion that	 on the facts found	 the non resident Companies must be held to have carried on business with the appellant as provided in section 42(2). (1) (2) ; (3) [1950] 18 ; 433. 434. 860 It was argued that the result of this arrangement was only to reduce the repairing charges and enable the non resident Companies to thereby make a saving; that that was not profit or gains of a business liable to be taxed under the Act	 and the decisions in Tennant vs Smith (1) and In re Major John(") were cited in sup. port of this position. But	 as already held by us	 the subject matter of the tax under section 42(2) is the business of the resident and not that of the non resident	 and what we have to decide is not whether the nonresident Companies made profits in their dealings with the appellant but whether what they did was business	 and for that purpose it is immaterial that the business was carried on by them in such manner that no profits could accrue to them therefrom. Vide the observations of Coleridge C. J. at p. 113 in Commissioners of Inland Revenue vs Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (3 ). The fact therefore that the nonresident Companies could derive no profits from the dealings with the appellant would not detract from their character as business with the appellant. This contention must	 therefore	 be rejected. It was finally contended that the profits chargeable under section 42(2) must be separately assessed and not added on to the other profits or income of the appellant. This contention is based on the assumption that section 42(2) imposes on the appellant	 a vicarious liability	 the charge being in reality on the profits of the nonresident. On our finding that the charge is on the business of the appellant and not of the non resident Companies	 this contention does not survive. In the result	 the appeal fails and is dismissed with costs. Appeal dismissed.

Under section 42(2) Of the Indian Income tax Act	 1922	 " Where a person not resident or not ordinarily resident in the taxable territories carried on business with a person resident in the taxable territories	 and it appears to the Income tax Officer that owing to the close connection between such persons the course of business is so arranged that the business done by the resident person with the person not resident or not ordinarily resident produces to the resident either no profits or less than the ordinary profits which might be expected to arise in that business	 the profits derived therefrom	 or which may reasonably be deemed to have been derived therefrom	 shall be chargeable to income tax in the name of the resident person who shall be deemed to be	 for all the purposes of this Act	 the assessee in respect of such income tax The appellant	 a private limited company carrying on business as marine engineers and ship repairers had its registered office in Bombay and was resident and ordinarily resident in India	 but its entire share capital was beneficially owned by two non resident companies whose business consisted in plying ships for hire. Under an agreement between them the ships plied for hire by the non resident companies were to be repaired by the appellant company at cost	 charging no profits. The Income tax Officer made an assessment on the appellant company under section 42(2) of the Indian Income tax Act	 1922. It was contended for the appellant (1) that section 42(2) imposed a charge only on a business carried on by a non resident and that therefore no tax could be imposed on the business of the appellant	 and (2) that it was a condition for the levy of a charge under that subsection that the non resident must carry on business with the resident and that in the instant case it was not satisfied	 as all that the non resident companies did was only to get their ships repaired by the appellant company: Held	 (1) that the business which is the subject matter of taxation under section 42(2) Of the Indian Income tax Act	 1922	 is that of the resident and not of a non resident. The expression 849 " derived therefrom " in that sub section refers to the business of the resident. (2)that a person can be said to carry on a business with another if the dealings between them form concerted and organised activities of a business character. Where	 as in the instant case	 the nonresident companies got their ships repaired by the appellant	 not as they might by any other repairer but under a special agreement that repairs should be done by the appellant at cost	 the non resident companies must be held to have carried on business with the appellant within the meaning of section 42(2) Of the Act	 even though the non resident companies might have derived no profits from the dealings with the appellant. Narain Swadeshi Weaviing Mills vs The Commissioner of Excess Profits Tax	 and Commissioners of lnland Revenue vs I corporated Council of Law Reporting	 	 relied on.