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Pharma freebies to doctors under scrutiny: Do they qualify as business expenses u/s 37(1) of the Income Tax Act?

June 18, 2023

Notes     Income Tax

Pharmaceutical companies’ gifting freebies to doctors, etc. - whether Allowable Business expenditure under Section 37(1)?

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