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tax benefit rule

tax benefit rule : a tax rule requiring that if an amount (as of a loss) used as a deduction in a prior taxable year is recovered in a later year it must be included in the gross income for the later year to the extent of the original deduction NOTE: If the amount of the loss was not taken as a deduction in the year the loss occurred, the recovered amount is not counted as income. ...


Trade allowance

Trade allowance, the question whether a particular payment is a trade allowance or not, depends upon the facts of each case. Firstly, it must be a deduction in any transaction in respect of commercial crops. If it is a deduction out of the price or commodity agreed to be paid or transferred, it would be a trade allowance. On the other hand, if the payment is 'de hors' the terms of the transaction but made towards consideration for the use of the premises or services rendered, it would not be a deduction from the price or in any transaction, M.C.V. S. Arunachala Nadar v. State of Madras, AIR 1959 SC 300 (308). (Madras Commercial Crops Markets Act, 1933, s. 14)...


Wholly and exclusively

Wholly and exclusively, the expression 'wholly and exclusively' used in s. 10(2)(xv) of the Income Tax Act, 1922 does not mean 'necessarily'. Ordinarily it is for the assessee to decide whether any expenditure should be incurred in the course of his or its business. Such expenditure may be incurred voluntarily and without any necessity and if it is incurred for promoting the business and to earn profits, the assessee can claim deduction under s. 10(2)(xv) of the Act even though there was no compelling necessity to incur such expenditure. It is relevant to refer at this stage to the legislative history of s. 37 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 which corresponds to s. 10(2)(xv) of the Income Tax Act, 1922. An attempt was made in the Income Tax Bill of 1961 to lay down the 'necessity' of the expenditure as a condition for claiming deduction under s. 37. S. 37(1) in the Bill read 'any expenditure . . . laid out or expended wholly, necessarily and exclusively for the purposes of the business or ...


Turnover of purchases

Turnover of purchases, in relation to any period, means:(a) in the case of the occupier of a jute-mill, the aggregate of the purchase prices or parts of purchase prices payable by such occupier for the quantities of raw jute purchased by him during such period after deducting the amounts, if any, refunded to him by the seller during such period in respect of any quantity of raw jute returned to the seller within ninety days from the date of its purchase and such other amounts as may be prescribed.(b) in the case of a shipper of jute, the aggregate of the purchase price or parts of purchase price payable by such shipper of jute in respect of the quantities of raw jute purchase by him in West Bengal and dispatched by him during such period to any place outside West Bengal by any means of transit.(c) in case of any dealer liable to pay tax under s. 12 or s. 13, the aggregate of the purchase price or parts of purchase price payable by such dealer in respect of the goods, prescribed under t...


Wholly and exclusively for purposes of such business

Wholly and exclusively for purposes of such business, the expenditure of a capital nature is certainly not an expenditure which is deductible for computing profits though it may be an expenditure wholly and exclusively laid out for the purposes of the business etc. If this expenditure is not a capital nature but of a revenue nature it is certainly deductible under this clause. All other expenditure which is not included in (i) or (xiv) or which is not at the very inception deductible as an overriding charges on the whole of the profit-making apparatus will be deductible if it is laid out or expenditure wholly and exclusively for pur-poses of such business, C.I.T. Kerala v. Travancere Sugar and Chemicals Ltd., AIR 1973 SC 982 (986). [Income Tax Act (11 of 1922), s. 10(2) (xv)]...


Tithe Rent-Charge

Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...


gross

gross [Middle English, immediately obvious, from Middle French gros thick, coarse, from Latin grossus] 1 : flagrant or extreme esp. in badness or offensiveness : of very blameworthy character [a violation of the rules of ethics] [a abuse of trust] 2 : consisting of an overall total exclusive of deductions [ annual earnings] compare net gross·ly adv gross·ness n n : overall total exclusive of deductions in gross 1 : as a lump sum see also lump sum alimony at alimony 2 : independently existing, belonging to a person, and not attached to land see also easement in gross at easement vt : to earn or bring in (an overall total) exclusive of deductions (as for taxes or expenses) ...


Debt owed

Debt owed, a debt owed within the meaning of s. 2(m) of the Wealth-tax Act can be defined as a liability to pay in praesenti or in futuro an ascertainable sum of money, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Her Highness Vijyaba Dowger Maharani Saheb of Bhavnagar Palace, (1979) 2 SCC 213: AIR 1979 SC 982: (1979) 3 SCR 545.The deduction claimed in respect of each assessment year was in truth and substance a liability under the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 or the Income-tax Act, 1961, as the case may be, and not a new liability created by the Finance Act, and, therefore, it constituted a 'debt owed' by the assessee on the respective valuation dates within the meaning of s. 2(m) of the Act and that the deduction claimed should be allowed while computing the net wealth of the assessee, Ahmed Ibrahim Sahigra Dhoraji v. Commissioner of Wealth Tax, (1981) 3 SCC 77: AIR 1981 SC 1562: (1981) 3 SCR 402.A 'debt owed' within the meaning of, s. 2(m) of the Wealth-tax Act can be defined as a liability to pay ...


Trade discount

Trade discount, a 'trade discount' is a deduction from the catalogue price of goods allowed by wholesalers to retailers engaged in the trade, Dy. C.S.T. (Law), Board of Revenue (Taxes) v. Advani Coorlikon (P) Ltd., AIR 1980 SC 609 (610): (1980) 1 SCC 360: (1980) 1 SCR 931. [Central Sales Tax Act, 1956, s. 2(h)]Trade discount, is a percentage deduction from the regular list or catalogue price or goods, A.K. Roy v. Voltas Limited, 1973 SCC Tax 261...


zero bracket amount

zero bracket amount : a deduction from gross income that was permitted for federal taxpayers and reflected in tax tables until its replacement by the standard deduction in 1986 ...



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