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Issues: (i) Whether disallowance under section 14A read with rule 8D was warranted in respect of investments made in sister concerns from interest-free funds for strategic business reasons; (ii) Whether any disallowance under section 14A read with rule 8D could be added back while computing book profit under section 115JB.
Issue (i): Whether disallowance under section 14A read with rule 8D was warranted in respect of investments made in sister concerns from interest-free funds for strategic business reasons.
Analysis: The investments were made in Government undertakings having ancillary and inter-related port-related objects. The available funds far exceeded the value of the investments, supporting the inference that the investments were from interest-free funds. The Tribunal applied the settled principle that where investments in sister concerns are made for strategic business considerations out of own funds, and no expenditure is shown to have been incurred for monitoring such investments, section 14A is not attracted.
Conclusion: The disallowance under section 14A read with rule 8D was not sustainable and was directed to be deleted, in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether any disallowance under section 14A read with rule 8D could be added back while computing book profit under section 115JB.
Analysis: Once the disallowance under section 14A was deleted, the corresponding adjustment to book profit did not survive. Independently, the Tribunal held that the deeming fiction under section 14A cannot be superimposed on the separate deeming framework of section 115JB, because the latter permits only the specific adjustments provided in its Explanation and does not authorise adding back a section 14A disallowance.
Conclusion: The addition to book profit on account of section 14A disallowance was not permissible and the issue was decided in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The assessee succeeded on both substantive issues, and the assessment adjustment relating to section 14A and the corresponding MAT computation adjustment were set aside.
Ratio Decidendi: Investments made out of interest-free funds in sister concerns for strategic business purposes do not warrant disallowance under section 14A, and such a disallowance cannot be mechanically imported into book-profit computation under section 115JB unless specifically authorised by that provision.
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