Lubrizol India Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax on 11 March, 1990
18. The Gauhati High Court in Doom Dooma Tea Co. Ltd. v. CIT [1989] 180 ITR 126, of course, held to the contrary. However, with respect to that High Court, we find it difficult to follow their decision, the reason is simple. The only argument that appears to have been advanced on behalf of the Revenue in that case was that, as there was no specific provision in of the Revenue in the Income-tax Act providing for deduction in respect of surtax liability, surtax liability could not be allowed as deduction. This contention was held to be and rightly not tenable as a number of other taxes, cesses and levies about which there was no specific provision for deduction in the Act were held deductible by the Supreme Court and various High Courts.