Ad hoc disallowance of expenditure - element of personal use by ...

Disallowance of Expenditure Based on Estimates Without Specific Discrepancies is Unjustifiable, Illogical, and Unsustainable.

November 6, 2018

Case Laws Income Tax AT

Ad hoc disallowance of expenditure - element of personal use by the directors and employees - without pointing out to any particular discrepancy in the books of accounts of the assessee or without rejecting the books of accounts, such disallowance on estimate basis has no logic behind it and we find it difficult to sustain the same

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Ad hoc disallowance of expenditure - element of personal use by ...

Disallowance of Expenditure Based on Estimates Without Specific Discrepancies is Unjustifiable, Illogical, and Unsustainable.

November 6, 2018

Case Laws Income Tax AT

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