Depreciation can be allowed even if the machinery is not put to use

ITO V/s Tropicana Beverages Company (ITAT Delhi)- when it is established that the machinery on which depreciation has been claimed by the assessee, had been provided by the assessee to Dynamix for the purpose of manufacturing the product of the assessee, necessarily the machinery was used for the purpose of the business of the assessee. That being so, “used for the purposes of the business” in section 32 of the Act is applicable to the assessee. The words “used for the purposes of the business” in section 10(2)(iv) of the Indian Income Tax Act, 1922, which expression is the same as tha...