Tax Deduction Denied: Mosque Lunch Payments Not Exclusively for Employees, Upheld by Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals).

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....Disallowance paid to mosque for providing free lunch to the assessee’s employees - The mosque was not under control of the assessee and free lunch was provided to the other persons and not exclusively to the labourers of the assessee. Therefore, in such circumstances, it could not be treated that the payment made by the assessee was wholly and exclusively for the purpose of the business of the assessee and accordingly the action of the Ld. CIT(A) in disallowing the ground is upheld. - AT....