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"The issue involved in these appeals has been considered by the Hon'ble
Gujarat High Court in Tax Appeal No. 604/2012, decided on 29.1.2013,
in Commissioner of Income Tax, Ahmedabad-lII v. Parry Engineering and
Electronics Pvt. Ltd. In the case aforesaid Hon'ble Gujarat High Court
held that "Windmill would require a scientifically designed machinery in
order to harness the wind energy to the maximum potential. Such device
has to be fitted and mounted on a civil construction, equipped with
electric fittings in order to transmit the electricity so generated. Such
civil structure and electric fittings, therefore, it can be well imagined,
would be highly specialized. Thus, such civil construction and electric
fitting would have no use other than for the purpose of functioning of
the windmill. On the other hand, it can be easily imagined that windmill
cannot function without appropriate installation and electrification. In
other words, the installation of windmill and the civil structure and the
electric fittings are so closely interconnected and linked as to form the
common plant. As already noted, the legislature has provided for higher
rate of depreciation of 80 per cent on renewable energy devises
including windmill and any specially designed devise, which runs on
19 ITA 737 & 738/JP/2017_
DCIT Vs. Rajasthan Patrika
windmill. The civil structure and the electric fitting, equipments are part
and parcel of the windmill and cannot be separated from the same. The
assessees claim for higher depreciation on such investment was,
therefore, rightly allowed."
"The issue involved in these appeals has been considered by the
Hon'ble Gujarat High Court in Tax Appeal No. 604/2012,
decided on 29.1.2013, in Commissioner of Income Tax,
Ahmedabad-III v. Parry Engineering and Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
In the case aforesaid Hon'ble Gujarat High Court held that
"Windmill would require a scientifically designed machinery in
order to harness the wind energy to the maximum potential.
21 ITA 737 & 738/JP/2017_
DCIT Vs. Rajasthan Patrika
Such device has to be fitted and mounted on a civil
construction, equipped with electric fittings in order to transmit
the electricity so generated. Such civil structure and electric
fittings, therefore, it can be well imagined, would be highly
specialized. Thus, such civil construction and electric fitting
would have no use other than for the purpose of functioning of
the windmill. On the other hand, it can be easily imagined that
windmill cannot function without appropriate installation and
electrification. In other words, the installation of windmill and
the civil structure and the electric fittings are so closely
interconnected and linked as to form the common plant. As
already noted, the legislature has provided for higher rate of
depreciation of 80 per cent on renewable energy devises
including windmill and any specially designed devise, which
runs on windmill. The civil structure and the electric fitting,
equipments are part and parcel of the windmill and cannot be
separated from the same. The assessees claim for higher
depreciation on such investment was, therefore, rightly
allowed."