ALNESH AKIL SOMJI,PUNE vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, PUNE
In the result, both the appeals filed by the assessee are partly allowed for statistical purposes
ITA 35/PUN/2025[2019-20]Status: DisposedITAT Pune27 Jun 2025AY 2019-20
Bench: Shri R. K. Panda & Ms Astha Chandra
For Appellant: Shri Nitin RanderFor Respondent: Shri Amol Khairnar CIT-DR
Section 132Section 139(1)Section 143(2)Section 153ASection 24
…nclusion that to bring a case within the section it is not necessary that any income should in fact have been earned as a result of the expenditure It may be pointed out that an identical view was taken by this court in Eastern Investments Ltd. v/s CIT (1951) 20 ITR 14 (SC) where interpreting the corresponding provision in section 12(2) of the Indian IT Act, 1922, which was ipsissima verba in the same terms as Section 57(1), Bose J speaking on behalf of the Court, observed: “It is not necessary to show that the expenditure was a profitable one or that in fact any profit was earned." It is indeed difficult to see…