Patent-settlement expenditure treated as commercially expedient revenue outlay, with foreign-law restrictions inapplicable before the prospective amen...
Nature of receipt - non- compete fee - capital or revenue receipt - Clearly, for the period in which the non-compete agreement was to operate, which in this case was 10 years, the assessee’s source of income had been clamped and, therefore, compensation received by him could only be treated as capital receipt. - Not taxable - HC
Nature of receipt - non- compete fee - capital or revenue receipt - Clearly, for the period in which the non-compete agreement was to operate, which in this case was 10 years, the assessee’s source of income had been clamped and, therefore, compensation received by him could only be treated as capital receipt. - Not taxable - HC
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