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High Court Clarifies Tax Treatment of Carbon Credit Receipts u/s 115BBG, Allowing Assessees to Benefit Despite Past Uncertainty.

January 30, 2021

Case Laws     Income Tax     HC

Deduction u/s 80IA - Treatment to carbon credit receipt - Section 115BBG of the Act was introduced by Finance Act, 2017 with effect from 01.04.2018, prior to which, there was no such provision - assessees were under utter confusion as to under which provision of the Act, they should make a claim for deduction and having left with no other option, had been making the claim u/s 80IA - merely because the assessee due to uncertainty in the legal position, had made a claim under Section 80IA of the Act that cannot be a reason to deny a benefit granted in favour of the assessee. - HC

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