Govt subsidy to incentivize industries in backward areas to provide employment is capital in nature & not revenue

Advertisement Jindal Steel & Power Limited Vs Addl. CIT (ITAT Delhi) Facts in brief are that the assessing officer has, in the assessment order, while holding the impugned subsidy as revenue receipt, simultaneously reduced the same from cost of fixed assets, while applying provisions of Explanation 10 to section 43(1) of the Act resulting in double taxation of same amount of subsidy. It has been submitted by the assessee that even assuming, without admitting, that the subsidy received is a revenue receipt, the action of the assessing officer in reducing such subsidy from cost of fixed a...