Foreign tax credit on foreign dividend income cannot be denied...

Foreign tax credit on foreign dividend income cannot be denied solely because the prescribed form was furnished after the original-return due date but before the revised return and the end of the assessment year. Where the governing statute imposes no filing deadline and the procedural rule neither links delay to denial nor lists delayed filing as a disqualifying circumstance, the filing requirement operates as directory. Rectification is available where processing annexures recognise foreign tax credit as available but the computation simultaneously records it as nil, since that internal inconsistency is a mistake apparent from the record. The credit is to be allowed, while the processing adjustment remains open to challenge.