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2016 (4) TMI 525 - AT - Income TaxDisallowance of e mobilization expenses - revenue v/s capital expenditure - Held that:- Four rigs were acquired as an expansion of the existing business of the assessee company to charter hire the rigs which was admittedly set-up in the earlier years and no new business had been set up with acquisition of these four new rigs nor any new source of income has come to existence as there is a unity of management, control and interlacing in the business of the assessee company , we , therefore, in view of our detailed discussions and reasoning as above hold that the mobilization expenses incurred by the assessee company is to be allowed as revenue expenditure. Once the expenditure is found to be allowable as revenue expenditure as per provisions of the Income Tax Act,1961, the same are to be allowed as revenue expenditure under the Act while computing income chargeable to tax even if the tax-payer has given different treatment in its books of accounts by capitalizing the same in its books of accounts instead of debiting it to the Profit and Loss Account. This is the mandate of the Income Tax Act,1961 which has to be followed as the taxes can only be collected by the authority of law. In our considered view based on our above discussions and reasoning, the addition made by the A.O. and confirmed by the CIT(A) is ordered to be deleted. - Decided in favour of assessee
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