J.R. Patel And Sons (P.) Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax, Gujarat on 14 August, 1967
18. It was sought to be urged before us on behalf of the revenue by the learned Advocate-General that the statement furnished by the assessee as part of the additional evidence shows that from 1956, though the assessee-company went on receiving larger amounts of managing agency commission than before, still, after payment of the remuneration to A.J. Patel, the net amount left with the assessee-company was more or less the same in all the years since 1956. We do not agree with this submission. The question that has to be considered is not what the assessee-company actually received but what the assessee-company was expected to receive even by way of indirect benefit at the time when it entered into this agreement with A.J. Patel after April 1, 1956. Applying the well-known decision which we have referred to above as regards the notions of commercial expediency and the principles to be applied as to when an amount paid can be said to be expended wholly and exclusively for the purpose of the business of the assessee-company, we have come to the conclusion the in the instant case, the excess remuneration over the sum of Rs. 12,000 paid by the assessee-company to A.J. Patel was wholly and exclusively expended by it for the purpose of its business and was, hence, a deductible allowance within the meaning of section 10(2)(xv) of the Act.