Mehta Exports, Mumbai vs Assessee on 4 August, 2010
In fact, it raises several fundamental issues, viz., as to
how the expenditure allowable in the computation of the income assessable under one
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head of income could possibly be based on the income assessed under another head of
income. Put differently, how income assessed under one head, viz. 'income from other
sources', could possibly form the basis for allowance of expenditure in computing the
income under another head, i.e., 'profits and gains from business and profession'. Two,
without prejudice, under which head of income or provision of law would the expenditure
attributable to the income assessed under the other head, as income from other sources in
the instant case, be allowed. This is as only the expenditure exigible to be set off against
the income assessable under that head, as section 56, being specifically provided for, as
u/s.57, could be allowed there-against. We decide accordingly.