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Case Law Details

Case Name : M/s Liberty India Vs Commissioner of Income Tax (Supreme Court of India)
Appeal Number : Civil Appeal No. of 2009
Date of Judgement/Order : 31/08/2009
Related Assessment Year :
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SUMMARY OF CASE LAW

The assessee claimed that profit from Duty Entitlement Passbook Scheme (DEPB) and Duty Drawback Scheme are “derived from the business of the Industrial Undertaking” and consequently eligible for deduction u/s 80-IB. On appeal by the assessee, HELD, rejecting the plea:

(1) The Act broadly provides for two types of tax incentives, namely, investment linked incentives and profit linked incentives. Ch VI-A essentially belongs to the category of “profit linked incentives”;

(2) When ss. 80-IA/80-IB refer to profits derived from eligible business, it is not the ownership of that business which attracts the incentives but the generation of profits (operational profits). It is for this reason that Parliament has confined deduction to profits derived from eligible businesses;

(3) Each of the eligible business in sub-sections (3) to (11A) constitutes a stand-alone item in the matter of computation of profits. That is the reason why the concept of “Segment Reporting” stands introduced in the Indian Accounting Standards (IAS) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI);

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