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Sales Tax Remission Benefit Classified as Capital Receipt, Exempt from Income Tax u/s 2(24)(xviii.
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....Nature of receipt - sales tax remission benefit derived by the assessee - All the judgments cited before us also lay down the same ratio. Even otherwise subsidy is included in the definition of Income u/s 2 (24) (xviii) with effect from 1/4/2016. Accordingly, we hold that Sales tax incentive money received being the amount retained by the company in accordance with Section 41 of the West Bengal sales tax act, 1944 read with the West Bengal incentive scheme, 1999 was a capital receipt not chargeable to tax under the income tax act. - AT....