Interest Disallowance Overturned: Loans to Employees for Business Purposes Justified by Policy and Trade Customs.

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....Disallowance of interest paid by the assessee on the pretext that assessee has given loans and advances to its employees without charging any interest - advances given by the assessee are for the purposes of the business. It can also not said that there is an absence of business expediency in giving loans to staff. There is no contrary evidences recorded by the lower authority that advances given to the staff are bogus or for any non-business purposes and is not in accordance with the nature of business policy of the assessee as well as the custom of the trade. - Claim of interest allowed - AT....