Employee-Requested Donations Can Be Business Expenses Under Income Tax Act Section 37, If Exclusively for Business Purposes.

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....Allowable as business expenses - Small contributions to local people and institution on request of employees and business associates - Section 37 of the Act contemplates that any expenditure not being expenditure of the nature described in sections 32 to 36 and not being in the nature of capital expenditure or personal expenses of the assessee laid out or expended wholly and exclusively for the purpose of the business or profession shall be allowed in computing the income chargeable under the Head “Profits & Gains of Business or Profession”. AO failed to appreciate the nature of business of the assessee and the surrounding social environment where it has been carrying out its business. - AT....