2018 (9) TMI 1990

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....y the AO on account of Provision of warranty and After Sales Cost. 2. For this and such other reasons as may be urged at the time of hearing, the order of Ld. CIT(A) may be vacated and that of the Assessing Officer be restored. 3. The appellant craves leave to add, amend, alter or delete any of the above grounds of appeal during the course of appellate proceedings before the Hon'ble Tribunal." From the above, it is evident that the issue raised before us for adjudication is whether the Provision of warranty and After Sales Cost constitute an allowable deduction or not. 3. Briefly stated relevant facts include that the assessee is engaged in the business of manufacture and sale of petroleum refining and distillati....

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....liability. A reference is invited to Indian Molasses Co. (P.) Ltd. Vs. CIT (SC) 37 ITR 66, wherein it was held that expenditure, is, what is paid out or away and is something which is gone irretrievable. The assessee has not paid out the money but simply made the provision and debited it to P & L A/c., which cannot be termed as payment within the meaning to section 37 of the I.T.Act. Section 37 of the 1961 Act does not refer to "making of provision" it only refers to "deduction permissible on account of actual expenditure incurred". Further, the assessee has not given any scientific method of calculation to arrive at such liability. It is thus clear that the provision for warranty debited is contingent liability. The same is not al....

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....ant in the light of the factual matrix of the case and the legal position on the subject. On the issue of provisions for warranty and provision for After Sales Cost, I am of the view that in sum and substances, they are one and the same. In this regard, I also place reliance on the judgment rendered by the Hon'ble ITAT "E" Bench, Mumbai in ITA Nos. 3677 & 8219/MUM/2004, wherein, it has been held that "5. We have considered the rival submission and perused the material available on record. We find that the contention of the Assessing Officer that the assessee company can debit the expenditure relating to the sales warranty directly to the P & L account is not acceptable when the assessee is estimating the warranty liabilityes on....

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....efore us, the Ld. DR for the Revenue heavily relied on the order of Assessing Officer and submitted that Assessee has not furnished proper calculation and details of the expenditure incurred on account of said provisions i.e. provision of warranty and After Sales Cost. 7. On the other hand, the Ld. Counsel for the assessee described the manner in which the Assessing Officer made addition without considering the submissions of the assessee in right perspective. Relying heavily on the order of CIT(A), Ld. Counsel submitted that, on similar facts, the claim of the assessee was allowed in previous assessment years in assessee's own case. He cited the list of cases in which relief was granted by the Tribunal and the Hon'ble High Court rel....