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2016 (3) TMI 685 - HC - Income TaxInterpretation of the Explanation to section 73 - Tribunal held that the loss incurred in eligible transactions within the meaning of proviso (d) to section 43(5) not involving any purchase or sale of shares as such was speculation loss ? - Held that:- It would appear that the activities appearing in Clauses (a) to (e) are not to be deemed to be speculative transactions. Therefore, this comes within the category of deemed business which is however distinct and separate from any other business. Now, the question is, whether loss arising out of such deemed business can be set off against the profit arising out of other business or businesses which may for clarity be called proper business. Under Section 70 of the Act, the assessee is entitled to have the loss set off against his income from any other source under the same head unless otherwise provided. Therefore answer to the question is that the assessee is entitled to have the loss arising out of deemed business set off against the income arising out of business proper unless otherwise provided. The question however remains whether the explanation to Sub-Section (4) of Section 73 relied upon by Mr. Lodh provides otherwise. A plain reading of the explanation quoted above cannot be said to have provided otherwise. In that case the irresistible conclusion is that the assessee is entitled to set off such loss arising out of deemed business against the income arising out of business proper. We are inclined to think that the clause of the sentence ‘which fall squarely….’, qualifies the word 'shares''and not the word 'derivatives'. We have no difficulty in accepting the views that shares fall squarely within the Explanation to Section 73(4) but we are unable to agree when derivatives are treated at par with the shares because the legislature has treated them differently.
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