Trust Asset Acquisition: Expenditure Counts as Income Application; Depreciation Allowed in Future Years per IT Officer.

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....When the Income-tax Officer stated that full expenditure had been allowed in the year of acquisi tion of the assets, what he really meant was that the amount spent on acquiring those assets had been treated as 'application of income' of the trust in the year in which the income was spent in acquiring those assets. This did not mean that in computing income from those assets in subsequent years, depreciation in respect of those assets cannot be taken into account.....