2014 (5) TMI 588

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..... Mr. Mayank Nagi, Adv. ORDER The revenue has preferred this appeal claiming to be aggrieved by an order of the Income Tax Appellant Tribunal (ITAT) dated 17.03.2006. The question of law framed in this case is:- (i) Whether the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal was right in holding that the entire expenditure incurred by the assessee on production of programmes which became part of news archives s .....

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..... al, however, reversed the findings of the AO. It was noticed that the news archives were not in the nature of plant or income generating apparatus but part of the product. It was also held that the unavailability of any objective basis, to quantify with any decree of accuracy future revenue that were likely to be generated and the proportionate cost of production that could be deferred, led to the .....

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..... treated as revenue expenditure and also allowed by the Department. Learned A.R. has referred to judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Alembic Chemical Works Ltd. vs. CIT 177 ITR 377 which laid down that what is capital expenditure and what is revenue are not eternal verities but must needs to be flexible so as to respond to the changing economic realities of business. Viewed in that per .....

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