Income Tax Act Section 23(1)(c): Property Owners Can Claim Deductions for Vacant Rentals Despite Efforts to Lease.

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....Income from house property - deduction (Vacancy allowance) - Notably the words used in section 23(1)(c) of the Act are “the property is let and was vacant during the whole…of the year”, which necessarily implies that the same property cannot be “let out” and yet remain “vacant” during the same assessment year. Therefore, as noted above, the reasonable construction/interpretation of section 23(1)(c) would be that if the property has been let out in any of the previous years, but the same could not be let out despite the best efforts by the assessee, the assessee would be entitled to avail the benefits of section 23(1)(c) of the Act - AT....