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Issues: Whether the supplemental lease rent paid to non-resident lessors for aircraft operations fell within the exemption under section 10(15A) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, so as to exclude any obligation to deduct tax at source under section 195 and any consequent default under section 201(1).
Analysis: The payments labelled as reserves or supplemental rent were examined in the context of the lease agreements and the post-amendment language of section 10(15A). The decisive question was whether the payments were merely connected with operation of the leased aircraft, or whether they were payments for providing spares, facilities or services in connection with such operation. The agreements did not show that the lessors supplied spares or rendered any facility or service against these payments. The reserves were only a mechanism to meet maintenance and airworthiness expenditure, and the legislative amendment was intended to tax payments actually made for spares, facilities or services provided by the foreign enterprise. Since the payments did not fall within the exclusionary part of section 10(15A), they remained exempt and were not chargeable to tax.
Conclusion: The Revenue's challenge failed. The assessee was not liable to deduct tax at source on the supplemental lease rent, and could not be treated as an assessee in default under section 201(1).
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