Royalty expenditure - Capital OR Revenue - assessee purchased ...
Court Criticizes AO for Ignoring Binding Circular on Film Royalty Expenses, Labels Decision as Speculative and Hyper-Technical.
September 14, 2012
Case Laws Income Tax AT
Royalty expenditure - Capital OR Revenue - assessee purchased distribution rights of the Punjabi film - As the AO has ignored the Board Circular No. 92 dated 18.9.1972 pertaining to writing off royalty/distribution expenses of films which is binding on tax authorities thus the action of the AO was based on surmises and conjectures, without considering the nature of business of the assessee which was supported by hyper approach ignoring the Board Circular - AT
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