TMI Blog1979 (11) TMI 88X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... question of law for opinion of this court : " Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal was correct in law in holding that section 41(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, is not attracted to this case ? " The facts necessary for answering this question may be shortly stated. The assessee had paid certain amounts of sales tax in discharge of sales ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of the assessee in the respective years. The appeal filed by the assessee succeeded and the revenue's appeal filed before the Tribunal failed. The question that arises is as to whether this amount constituted the assessee's income in view of s. 41(1) of the Act. Section 41(1) of the Act runs as under : " 41.(1) Where an allowance or deduction has been made in the assessment for any year in res ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... business expenditure allowable under s. 37 of the Act. Thus, the amounts which the assessee had, either debited in its books or paid for sales tax, constituted business expenditure. The assessee had been granted a deduction for this expenditure. Section 41(1) provides for inclusion of any amount which has been allowed as a deductible expenditure, in case the assessee had during the previous year r ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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