TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2016 (6) TMI 850
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....ve appeal, raising the following substantial questions of law:- "1. Whether under the facts and circumstance of the case, the Hon'ble Income Tax Appellate Tribunal right in law in holding that assessee is entitled to deduction under Section 80 IA without setting off the losses/unabsorbed depreciation pertaining to the windmill, which were set off in the earlier year against other business income of the assessee, following the decision of the jurisdiction High Court in the case of M/s.Velayudhasamy Spinning Mills (340 ITR 477) when the same is pending appeal before Hon'ble Supreme Court in SLP Civil No.33475 of 2012? 2. Whether under the facts and circumstances of the case, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal was corr....
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....ar' in Section 80IA(5) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 Section 801A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ( Act ), as substituted by Finance Act, 1999 with effect from 1.4.2000, provides for deduction of an amount equal to 100% of the profits and gains derived by an undertaking or enterprise from an eligible business (as referred to in Sub-Section (4) of that Section) in accordance with the prescribed provisions. Sub-Section (2) of Section 801A further provides that the aforesaid deduction can be claimed by the assessee, at his option, for any ten consecutive assessment years out of fifteen years (twenty years in certain cases) beginning from the year in which the undertaking commences operation, begins development or starts providing ....
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....lear from Sub-Section (2) that an assessee who is eligible to claim deduction u/s 80IA has the option to choose the initial/first year from which it may desire the claim of deduction for ten consecutive years, out of a slab of fifteen (or twenty) years, as prescribed under that Sub-Section. It is hereby clarified that once such initial assessment year has been opted for by the assessee, he shall be entitled to claim deduction u/s 801A for ten consecutive years beginning from the year in respect of which he has exercised such option subject to the fulfillment of conditions prescribed in the section. Hence, the term initial assessment year would mean the first year opted for by the assessee for claiming deduction u/s 801A. However, the total ....
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....nder Section 80-I and 80-IA of the Act. 7. Velayudhaswamy Spinning Mills Pvt. Ltd.,'s case (stated supra), has been followed in CIT v. R.Yuvaraj reported in [2015] 57 TAXMANN.COM 252 (Madras). 8. It is held that though it is contended that SLP filed against the above reported judgment, is pending on the file of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, the effect of the same, would not amount to reversal or erase the dictum. 9. Material on record discloses that while confirming the order of the Commissioner of Income-Tax (Appeal), the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal has rightly held that, on appeal, the Commissioner of Income-tax(Appeals), following the aforesaid judgment of the Madras High Court in the case of Velayudhaswamy Spinning Mills....