TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1996 (1) TMI 62
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....ed for the decision of this court under section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, is, as follows : "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the addition of Rs. 26,517 representing interest on sticky advances as income of the assessment year 1978-79 is valid in law ?" The assessment year concerned is 1978-79. The accounting year ended on December 31, 1976. The assessee, ....
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.... such the interest thereon, though debited to the respective debtors was taken to the " interest suspense account " to avoid showing inflated profits by including hypothetical and unreal in come, and such interest on " sticky " advances was not real income and was not taxable in its hands. The assessing authority rejected the claim for deduction of an amount of Rs. 26,517 credited to the interest ....
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....itions (page 155): (1) It is the income which has really accrued or arisen to the assessee that is taxable. Whether the income has really accrued or arisen to the assessee must be judged in the light of the reality of the situation. (2) The concept of real income would apply where there has been a surrender of income which in theory may have accrued but in the reality of the situation, no incom....
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....versing that entry -- but taking the interest merely in suspense account cannot be such evidence to show that no real income has accrued to the assessee or been treated as such by the assessee. (8) The concept of real income is certainly applicable in judging whether there has been income or not but, in every case, it must be applied with care and within well-recognised limits. Following the ab....