Treatment of securities as stock-in-trade or investment: assessing officers must determine classification under facts and central bank guidelines. Whether securities held by banks are stock-in-trade or investment is a question of fact; Assessing Officers must determine classification in each case based on facts and the Reserve Bank's accounting and classification guidelines. The Supreme Court's earlier decision addressed the capital/revenue character of consideration paid and did not resolve the broader stock-in-trade versus investment question.
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Treatment of securities as stock-in-trade or investment: assessing officers must determine classification under facts and central bank guidelines.
Whether securities held by banks are stock-in-trade or investment is a question of fact; Assessing Officers must determine classification in each case based on facts and the Reserve Bank's accounting and classification guidelines. The Supreme Court's earlier decision addressed the capital/revenue character of consideration paid and did not resolve the broader stock-in-trade versus investment question.
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