Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Muller and Company's Margarine, Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date20 May 1901
Judgment citation (vLex)[1901] UKHL J0520-2
CourtHouse of Lords
Date20 May 1901

[1901] UKHL J0520-2

House of Lords

Commissioners of Inland Revenue
and
Muller and Company's Margarine, Limited.
1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Friday the 15th as Tuesday the 19th and Thursday the 21st days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th of November 1899, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed case of Muller & Co.'s Margarine, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; And due consideration being had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:

2

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of Her late Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th day of November 1899, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby, dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellants do pay or cause to be paid to the...

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    • 26 Octubre 2021
    ...as something which adds value to the business: Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7; Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1901) AC 217; Box v The Commissioner Taxation (1952) 86 CLR 387; [1952] HCA 61; Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Murry (1998) 193 CLR 605; [1998] HCA 42; Ta......
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    • 26 Octubre 2021
    ...as something which adds value to the business: Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7; Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1901) AC 217; Box v The Commissioner Taxation (1952) 86 CLR 387; [1952] HCA 61; Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Murry (1998) 193 CLR 605; [1998] HCA 42; Ta......
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    ...(Ca. Sup. Ct. Dec. 18, 2002). (70) Id. at *1. (71) Id. at *2. (72) Id. (73) Inland Revenue Comm'rs v. Muller & Co.'s Margarine, Ltd. [1901] AC 217 (HL) 224 (Eng.) (Lord (74) Robertson v. Quiddington (1860) 54 ER 469, 471 (Eng.). (75) See Rowe v. Toon, 169 N.W. 38 (Iowa 1918), where the ......
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