Nature of expenses - purchasing software licenses - revenue or ...

Software License Purchases Classified as Revenue Expenditure for Improved Business Efficiency, Not Capital Expenditure.

December 26, 2023

Case Laws Income Tax HC

Nature of expenses - purchasing software licenses - revenue or capital expenditure - Fine tuning business operations to enable the management to run its business effectively, efficiently and profitably; leaving the fixed assets untouched would be an expenditure in the nature of revenue expenditure even though the advantage may last for an indefinite period. Test of enduring benefit or advantage would thus collapse in such like cases. It would in our view be only truer in cases which deal with technology and software application, which do not in any manner supplant the source of income or added to the fixed capital of the assessee - HC

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Nature of expenses - purchasing software licenses - revenue or ...

Software License Purchases Classified as Revenue Expenditure for Improved Business Efficiency, Not Capital Expenditure.

December 26, 2023

Case Laws Income Tax HC

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