Expenditures for acquiring IPR must be treated as revenue expenses and matched against sales revenue, not as prior period costs.

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....The concept of prior period expenses cannot be applied in the instant case, since the assessee has acquired the rights over the IPR over a period. Under revenue cost matching principle, all the expenditure incurred in acquiring IPR have to be treated as revenue expenditure irrespective of the year in which it was incurred and has to be allowed against sales revenue of IPR. - AT....