Notional partner interest and remuneration cannot justify reassessment without evidence of actual receipt or mandatory entitlement.

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....Reassessment of a partner cannot rest on notional interest on capital or remuneration where the partnership deed merely enables, rather than mandates, those payments. Clauses subject to mutual agreement, including a subsequent amendment providing that no interest was payable, did not establish an enforceable entitlement or actual receipt by the partner. Without material showing that the partner received interest or remuneration, there was no basis to infer income escaping assessment. The High Court therefore quashed the reassessment notices issued to the partner.....