Tax Refund Adjustments: Only Tax Amount Should Change, Not Interest, u/s 244A of Income Tax Act.

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....Calculation of interest u/s 244A - when a refund of tax has to be reduced by refund already granted it is only the tax element which has to be adjusted and not the interest element paid on the delayed refund of the tax. This is so as the interest which is paid to the assessee is for the wrongful withholding of the assessee's refund by the revenue - HC....