Service Tax Payment Under VCES 2013 Should Be Deductible as Current Year Expenditure, Says Assessee.

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....Deductibility of the amount of service tax paid under VCES, 2013 - contention of the assessee is that the amount paid was a discharge of liability which got crystallized during the year and hence was an expenditure deductible for the year - Such payment during the year is nothing but, in a way, reversal of the original entry of receipt passed in the earlier years. Once receipt of the amount of service tax was included in the total income in earlier years, the obvious corollary is that its payment in the year in question will also qualify for deduction from the total income. - AT....