Leave encashment exemption: beneficial enhanced ceiling applies retrospectively to earlier assessment years, removing related taxable additions.

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....Enhanced leave-encashment exemption for non-government employees is treated as a beneficial, curative fiscal measure addressing hardship from the previously unrevised limit. Such beneficial provisions receive liberal construction and apply to pending proceedings unless retrospective operation is expressly barred. On that basis, the enhanced ceiling under section 10(10AA) applies to Assessment Year 2021-22, allowing exemption of the full leave-encashment receipt within that ceiling and removing the related addition.....