Interest Income Under Land Acquisition Act Taxable as 'Other Sources' Per Income Tax Act Sections 56(2)(viii) & 145A(b.

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....Nature of income - Income from other sources - interest income received u/s. 28 of Land Acquisition Act, 1984 as taxable u/s 56(2)(viii) r.w.s. 145A(b) - Scope of amended principles - The assessee could hardly rebut the fact that the foregoing statutory provision in fact makes both interest on compensation as well as on enhanced compensation deemed as income of the year in which it is received whereas the assessment year before their lordships was 1999-2000 only. We thus hold that the CIT(A) has rightly affirmed the assessment findings assessing the impugned interest income in assessee’s hands. - AT....