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Depreciation on Idle machinery

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..... Please clarify whether depreciation is applicable or not for idle machinery as per income tax act? Expecting your feedback with details. - Reply By GOPALJI AGRAWAL - The Reply = Depreciation is allowed only if the asset is used for the purpose of business or profession at least for sometime during (not necessarily throughout) the previous year. It is not necessary that the asset should have been .....

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..... used for the purpose of business or profession throughout the previous year. Even use during any part of the year would be sufficient to enable the assessee to claim depreciation for the whole year. Once an asset is part of a block of assets and depreciation is granted on that block, it cannot be denied in its subsequent year on the ground that one of the assets is not used by the assessee in some .....

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..... of years; user of assets has to apply upon block as a whole instead of an individual asset—Unitex Products Ltd. v. ITO [2008] 22 SOT 430 (Mum.). - Reply By DEV KUMAR KOTHARI - The Reply = In addition to reply by learned Shri GOPALJI AGRAWAL, I want to add that an idle machine can also be considered as used as it may be required as and when need arise For example, standby power units, standby mach .....

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..... ines, etc. may not be used but they are kept ready to use as and when requried. There are different sitations like 'idle'/ 'unused'/ 'not usable'/ 'discarded'. For example, in my librarty, it is not necessary that each of books should have been used , some books are kept for as and when required use (e.g.old editions of IT Act and Rules), some very old books may be not usable in normal course, bu .....

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..... t some time need may arise when we have to look into old provisions becasue now-a-days more then ten years old archieves are not given in many books. Some books are kept as standby arrangements extra sets- one may be out of office so the other one can be used.- entire liabry is consdired as used so long the books are kept ready for use. You can examine active and passive tests in overall context o .....

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..... f facts and circumstances. - Depreciation on Idle machinery - Query Started By: - velayutham panchatcharam Dated:- 7-7-2010 Income Tax - Got 2 Replies - Income Tax - Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing, reply post by an expert, personal opinion Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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