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1973 (11) TMI 6 - HC - Income TaxAssessee is a private limited company. For the assessment year 1957-58, the account year being the calendar year ending December 31, 1956, the assessee submitted a return and claimed a deduction of a sum of Rs. 1,98,993. The assessee was keeping its accounts on mercantile system. In the accounts for the calendar year 1956, the assessee made a provision for bonus payment of Rs. 1,50,000 for the year 1956 on the basis of 3 3/4 months' wages. The bonus was actually paid after the close of the accounting year 1956, the actual payment being of the order of Rs. 1,98,993 equivalent to five months' wages. The assessee claimed deduction also in regard to the difference of Rs. 48,993 not provided in the accounts of 1956 but paid for 1956 in later periods representing additional bonus liability equivalent to 11 months' wages - Whether the amount paid is deductible in the year in which provision was made
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