The assessee shall be entitled to admissible business expenses from the day when the business was ready to commence and not from the date of actual commencement of the business,

GNG Stock Holdings (P) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi)- When a business is established and is ready to commence business, then it can be said of that business that it is set up. But before it is ready to commence business, it is not set up. In other words, a business cannot be said to be set up before it is ready to commence. The actual commencement of the business may have some interval from the date when the business was set up, but in order to hold that the business is set up, it is to be seen as to whether it was ready to commence though

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