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2016 (10) TMI 710 - AT - Income TaxDisallowance of kist payment (lease rent) - section 43B applicability on kist payment - system of accounting followed - prior period item - Kist payment for the previous period - Held that:- As more than 93% of the expenditure pertains to the kist payment interest on kist and license fees which has been accounted on payment basis. Therefore undisputedly in the business of the assessee almost entire expenditure is incurred in respect of purchase of goods by making advance payment or simultaneous payment as the payment was being made to the Government. It is apparent that since beginning the assessee has been giving the treatment of kist payment on cash basis and the Assessing Officer accepted the same because of the reason that the department has taken a stand that the provisions of section 43B are applicable on the kist payment to the Government. Only after the judgment of Hon'ble jurisdictional High Court in Commissioner Of Income-Tax Versus Sri Balaji And Co. [2000 (1) TMI 17 - KARNATAKA High Court] and final settlement of the issue of applicability of section 43B, the Assessing Officer first time disallowed the expenditure in question. Therefore the assessee as well as revenue were under bona fide belief that the provisions of section 43B of the Act are applicable in respect of the kist payment uptil. The practice of accounting for a particular item of expenditure on cash basis was accepted for such a long time then it becomes revenue neutral as it was not claimed on due basis in the earlier assessment year. In view of the undisputed fact that in substance the system of accounting followed by the assessee is cash basis and further consistent treatment of expenditure of kist payment has been given and accepted over several years on payment basis then disallowance for this year is not justified. It is not the case of the department that this method of accounting of kist payment on cash basis is not consistently followed by the assessee. Therefore following this system of accounting consistently should not be disturbed in a particular year and particularly for the year under consideration when this claim was not made on accrual basis in the earlier year due to consistently followed accounting treatment otherwise it would result double taxation of the same income. In view of the above facts and circumstances of the case, we allow the claim of the assessee.
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