
Interest Paid On Loan Taken To Invest In Shares Of Subsidiary In Normal Course Of Business Activities Is Allowable Expenditure: Bombay High Court
Live LawThe Bombay High Court has held that if an assessee for commercial expediency and in the normal course of its business activities takes loan to invest in shares of its subsidiary, the interest paid on these advances utilised is allowable expenditure under Section 36 of the Income Tax Act.The bench of Justice K. R. Shriram and Justice Neela Gokhale has observed that assessee had. The Bombay High Court has held that if an assessee for commercial expediency and in the normal course of its business activities takes loan to invest in shares of its subsidiary, the interest paid on these advances utilised is allowable expenditure under Section 36 of the Income Tax Act. The department submitted that since the upfront fees paid to CBI was for taking the term loan, which was given to its subsidiary as interest free deposit in the guise of share application money and not for assessess's own business, the upfront fee also should be disallowed. The court held that since both the CIT as well as the ITAT had come to a factual finding and the law is also clear that if an assessee for commercial expediency and in the normal course of its business activities takes loan to invest in shares of its subsidiary, the interest paid on these advances utilised is allowable expenditure under Section 36.
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