Deduction in respect of expenditure on specified business u/s 35AD - Cash payment in excess of ₹ 10,000 in a single day to a person shall not be allowed - Budget 2017-18 w.e.f. AY 2018-19

Clause - 013 - Amendment of section 35AD.

THE FINANCE BILL, 2017

Clause 13 of the Bill seeks to amend section 35AD of the Income-tax Act relating to deduction in respect of expenditure on specified business.

The existing provisions of the said section provides that deduction in respect of the whole of any expenditure of capital nature incurred, wholly and exclusively, for the purposes of any specified business carried on during the previous year in which such expenditure is incurred, is allowed to an assessee. Clause (f) of sub-section (8) of the said section provides for exclusion of any expenditure incurred on the acquisition of any land or goodwill or financial instrument from the purview of expenditure of capital nature accordingly, not be allowed as deduction.

It is proposed to amend the said clause (f) so as to provide that any expenditure in respect of which a payment or aggregate of payments made to a person in a day, otherwise than by an account payee cheque drawn on a bank or an account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account, exceeds ten thousand rupees, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of such expenditure also.

This amendment will take effect from 1st April, 2018 and will, accordingly, apply in relation to the assessment year 2018-2019 and subsequent years.

Dated: 2-2-2017