Loan Write-Offs for Farmers: Evaluating Bad Debts for Tax Purposes Requires Transaction Analysis to Determine Legal Eligibility.

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....Bad debts - Writing off of Loan to farmers - The treatment of the write-offs of such loans would then have to be viewed probably as bad debts, though this may not be treated as our decision on the issue. What is necessary therefore for adjudicating the issue of eligibility to claim of write off of principal loan amount is the nature of the transaction resulting in the loan being granted to farmers. It is only thereafter it can be decided as to whether the assessee is eligible to claim write off of the same as per law and under which provision - AT....