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The term “reimbursement” does not fall in the characteristics of ...


Reimbursement Lacks Income Traits, Exempt from Taxation: Only Amounts with Income Characteristics Should Be Taxed.

March 1, 2017

Case Laws     Income Tax     AT

The term “reimbursement” does not fall in the characteristics of income. No doubt the definition of ‘income’ is inclusive. This, of course, does not mean that an amount which can, by no stretch of imagination, be called income can be treated as income and taxed as such by parliament. It must have some characteristics of income as broadly understood - AT

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