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2019 (8) TMI 653

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..... E J.B.PARDIWALA) 1. This Tax Appeal under Section 260-A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (for short "the Act, 1961") is at the instance of the Revenue and is directed against the order passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, "A" Bench, Ahmedabad, dated 21.02.2019 in the ITA No.2112/Ahd/2017 for the Assessment Year 2014-15. 2. The Revenue has proposed the following substantial question of law o .....

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..... ion to earning of tax free income then such expenditure would not be allowed. The ld.CIT(A) has recorded a finding that neither interest/other expenses were incurred nor any exempt income was earned by the assessee, and therefore, there is no question of allocating expenditure. The relevant observation of the Hon'ble High Court in this regard reads as under : "4. Counsel for the Revenue subm .....

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..... nal held that disallowance under section 14A of the Act could not be made. In the process tribunal relied on the decision of Division Bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court in case of CIT v Winsome Textile Industries Ltd. [2009] 319 ITR 204 in which also the Court had observed as under : "7. We do not find any merit in this submission. The judgement of this court in Abhishek Industries Ltd (200 .....

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..... rred with the findings recorded by the CIT(A) that Section 14A of the Act can be invoked only if the assessee seeks to square off the expenditure against the income which does not form the part of the total income under the Act and in such circumstances, Section 14A of the Act could not have been invoked, more particularly, when no exempt income claim was earned in the relevant assessment years. T .....

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