Business loss or not - Payment of additional Custom Duty after ...

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March 31, 2020

Business loss or not - Payment of additional Custom Duty after the department of Customs found that goods were under-valued - the duty was paid in the names of other parties but the same related to the assessee only. - non-payment of the duty would have resulted into substantial losses for the assessee and damaged assessee’s reputation in the market. This being the case, the said loss would be allowable to the assessee as a business loss out of commercial expediency.

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