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Issues: Whether the Tribunal was justified in remanding the matter for fresh enquiry into the character of the receipt and the availability of deduction when the Revenue had not challenged the assessee's entitlement under Section 80IA(4)(iii) and that issue had attained finality.
Analysis: The assessee's industrial park was approved under the notified scheme, and the first appellate authority had held both that the lease rental was business income and that deduction under Section 80IA(4)(iii) was available even if the receipt was assessed under the head 'income from house property'. The Revenue's appeal before the Tribunal was confined to the character of the receipt and did not assail the finding on eligibility for deduction. In that situation, there was no surviving controversy requiring a fresh factual enquiry. The head under which the income was assessed was immaterial to the deduction claim once the statutory conditions for Section 80IA(4)(iii) were satisfied, and Rule 11 could not justify enlarging the dispute into an unraised issue.
Conclusion: The remand was unjustified and the order of the Tribunal was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: A remand cannot be ordered for enquiry into an issue that was not part of the Revenue's appeal and had already attained finality, where the assessee's entitlement to deduction under Section 80IA(4)(iii) was otherwise established and did not depend on the head under which the income was assessed.