TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2022 (2) TMI 988
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....aising the following substantial questions of law:- "1. Whether under the facts and circumstance of the case the Hon'ble Income Tax Appellate Tribunal right in law in holding that assessee is entitled to deduction under section 80IA without setting off the losses / unabsorbed depreciation pertaining to the windmill, which were set off in the earlier year against other business income of the assessee, following the decision of the Jurisdiction High Court in the case of M/s. Velayudhasamy Spinning Mills (340 ITR 477) when the same is pending appeal before the Hon'ble Supreme Court in SLP Civil 1136/2011? 2. Whether under the facts and circumstances of the case, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal was correct in holding that the init....
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.... Subject: Clarification of the term 'initial assessment year' in section 80IA (5) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 Section 801A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (`Act'), as substituted by the Finance Act, 1999 with effect from 01.04.2000, provides for deduction of an amount equal to 100% of the profits and gains derived by an undertaking or enterprise from an eligible business (as referred to in subsection (4) of that section) in accordance with the prescribed provisions. Sub-section (2) of Section 801A further provides that the aforesaid deduction can be claimed by the assessee, at his option, for any ten consecutive assessment years out of fifteen years (twenty years in certain cases) beginning from the year in which the undertaking commences o....
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....y the Board. It is abundantly clear from sub-section (2) that an assessee who is eligible to claim deduction u/s 801A has the option to choose the initial/ first year from which it may desire the claim of deduction for ten consecutive years, out of a slab of fifteen ( or twenty) years, as prescribed under that sub-section. It is hereby clarified that once such initial assessment year has been opted for by the assessee, he shall be entitled to claim deduction u/s 801A for ten consecutive years beginning from the year in respect of which he has exercised such option subject to the fulfillment of conditions prescribed in the section. Hence, the term 'initial assessment year' would mean the first year opted for by the assessee for claiming dedu....