1981 (3) TMI 121

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....evious year ended on 23rd Oct., 1976. The assessment in this case has been made under s. 143(3) of the IT Act, 1961. 2. The short point for our decision relates to the disallowance of Rs. 11,478 sustained by the CIT(A) out of a claim of Rs. 33,478 made by the assessee, and allowed by the ITO at Rs. 12,000 under the head 'messing expenses' with the reasoning that fooding expenses for 12 employee....

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....in second appeal before us. 5. We have heard the parties at length and perused very carefully the orders of the lower authorities. It is an admitted fact that the assessee had to incur expenses on providing meals to members of the staff as also to up-country clients and that the members of the staff are stated to be 12. If average monthly expenditure on each staff member for providing meals is ....