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TMI Blog2019 (12) TMI 1156X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 3537/- being the power and water charges incurred for Joint Development Project. 2. He erred in holding that the appellant could have recovered the amount from the land owners. 3. He failed to appreciate that the payments have been made during this year and the expenses have been rightly claimed as deduction. 4. The appellant submits that in any case the addition made I excessive and unreasonable. 5.The appellant therefore, prays that the addition of Rs. 10,811,537/- may be deleted. 2. Brief facts of the case are as under Assessee is a private limited company engaged in business of real estate development. It filed its original return of income for year under consideration on 30/09/09 declaring loss of Rs. 3,88,58,335/-which was s ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... it was incurred for assessee's own business, authorities below were not correct in confirming the disallowance. 6. On the contrary, Ld.Sr.DR submitted that liability to make the said sum was not on assessee as per the agreement, and therefore, the said sum cannot be said to be an expenditure incurred for purposes of assessee's business. He also submitted that it is unclear as to subsequently, if assessee recovered the said sum from M/s Century Golflinks. Ld.Sr.DR placed on record letter dated 15/10/19 extracts of order sheet entry from assessment records, wherein on 28/12/11 assessee has agreed for disallowance of Rs. 1,08,11,537/-. Thus, supporting orders of authorities below, he submitted that disallowance deserves to be upheld. 7. We h ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... charges which in total amounted to Rs. 10,96,33,163/-. It has been submitted that proportionate cost from Mr. Shivashankarappa has been received whereas, M/s Century Golflinks refused to pay their share amounting to Rs. 1,08,11,537/-, which was claimed by assessee as liquidated damages in its P&L account. 7.3 In our considered opinion, "liquidated damages" are compensation paid for breach of contract. We are therefore, unable to understand how the sum paid by assessee on behalf of M/s Century Golflinks being its proportionate share towards incurring of expenses would amount to liquidated damages. Assessee has also not brought on record to show that amount payable by M/s Century Golflinks is by way of compensation. Further, all decisions r ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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