High Court: Section 80IA doesn't allow carrying forward absorbed losses for deduction claims in eligible business income.

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....Deduction u/s 80IA - notional carried forward of unabsorbed losses/depreciation - The deeming fiction created by sub-section (5) of Section 80IA does not envisage such an adjustment. The fiction which has been created is simply this: the eligible business will be the only source of income. There is no fiction created, that losses which have already been absorbed, will be notionally carried forward and adjusted against the profits derived from the eligible business to quantify the deduction that the assessee could claim u/s 80IA of the Act. - HC....