1984 (8) TMI 127

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..... eby allowing deduction under s. 80M with reference to net dividends income. CIT (A) thus had directed the ITO to allow deduction under s. 80M with reference to net dividends income CIT (A) thus had directed the ITO to allow deduction under s. 80M with reference to gross amount of dividends of Rs. 2,10,389. 2. The assessee company is an investment company who derives income from dealing in shares .....

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..... er fee were business expenditure and were not deductible out of dividend income. 4. The Revenue is in appeal before us and stresses that after the amendment of s. 12 of IT Act, 1922 by Finance Act, 1956 (whereby the dividends were directed to be assessable under the head 'income from other sources'), the dividends were no longer to be treated as business income even in respect of an investment c .....

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..... e specific had of 'Income from other sources', for the purposes other then the computation of income the commercial character of that income can be taken into account fro determining whether borrowing of which interest was paid was for the purpose of business. They thus held that the payment by the said assessee on amount borrowed for the purposes of investment must be allowed as business expendit .....

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