High Court Rules Section 43B of Income Tax Act Inapplicable to Electricity Duty Collected by Assessee as Agent.

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....Applicability of Section 43B - electricity duty collected by the assessee - The revenue is required to show that the duty, tax, cess or fee (in the present case electricity duty) is payable by the assessee - assessee is merely an agency assigned with a statutory function to collect electricity duty from the consumers and to pay the same to the State Government - we find that the question w.r.t. the applicability of Section 43B on the electricity duty, needs to be answered against the revenue - HC....