Expenses incurred on recruitment and training of employees can not be held capital merely because assessee may earn benefits of enduring nature

DCIT Vs M/s Sapient Corporation Pvt Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) – It is by now well-settled that if the expenditure incurred by the taxpayer is of revenue nature, the same is entirely deductible even if there accrues an advantage of enduring nature in favor of the taxpayer as a result of the said expenditure. This is because going by the very nature of the expenditure being revenue, it operates in the revenue field leaving the capital field untouched. The enduring benefit resulting from the said expenditure may justify the action of the taxpayer to write off the said expenditure in his books of ...