India Nippon Electricals Ltd., Chennai vs Department Of Income Tax on 14 June, 2012
7. We have heard both sides, perused the materials available on record
and the orders of lower authorities as well as case law relied on by the
assessee's counsel. It appears that the assessee furnished the details of
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expenses included in pre-operative expenses of Rewara unit before the
Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) along with its submission on
07.06.2011, which was extracted by the Commissioner of Income Tax
(Appeals) in its order. It appears that these details were not furnished by the
assessee before the Assessing Officer at the time of assessment. We see
that all these expenses are in the nature of revenue expenses. No doubt that
the expenses incurred for expansion of setting up new unit, which is in the
same line of business are allowable as revenue expenses, in view of Hon'ble
Jurisdictional High Court's decision in the case of CIT vs. Sakthi Sugars Ltd.
[339 ITR 400] and various other judicial pronouncements. However, since
the assessee has not filed these details before the Assessing Officer, we
remit this issue to the file of the Assessing Officer with limited purpose of
verification of these expenses. The Assessing Officer has to verify whether
these expenses related to the plant and machinery as claimed by the
assessee and pertain to expansion of the unit at Rewara, Haryana and if this
expenditure is pertaining to that unit, the pre-operative expenses should be
allowed as revenue expenditure.