{"id":12012,"date":"2015-11-18T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T09:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T09:07:17","slug":"cit-vs-lemon-tree-hotels-ltd-delhi-high-court-s-371-cost-of-employees-stock-option-esop-debited-to-pl-ac-is-allowable-business-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/cit-vs-lemon-tree-hotels-ltd-delhi-high-court-s-371-cost-of-employees-stock-option-esop-debited-to-pl-ac-is-allowable-business-expenditure\/","title":{"rendered":"CIT vs. Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd (Delhi High Court)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question sought to be projected by the Revenue is whether the ITAT erred in deleting the addition of Rs. 1,28,19,169\/- made by the Assessing Officer (\u2018AO\u2019) by way of disallowance of the expenses debited as cost of Employees Stock Option (\u2018ESOP\u2019) in profit and loss account? The Court has been shown a copy of the decision dated 19th June 2012 passed by the Division Bench of Madras High Court in <a href=\"http:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/cit-vs-pvp-ventures-limited-madras-high-court-difference-between-market-price-option-price-of-esop-shares-deductible\/\">CIT-III Chennai v. PVP Ventures Ltd<\/a>. (TC(A) No. 1023 of 2005) where a similar question was answered in favour of the Assessee by holding that the cost of ESOP could be debited to the profit and loss account of the Assessee. This Court has also in its decision dated 4th August 2015 in ITA No.2 of 2002 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Oswal-Conv-Debentures-Exp.pdf\">CIT v. Oswal Agro Mills Ltd.<\/a>) held that the expenditure incurred in connection with issue of debentures or obtaining loan should be considered as revenue expenditure. In the circumstances, the impugned order of the ITAT answering the question in favour of the Assessee is affirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question sought to be projected by the Revenue is whether the ITAT erred in deleting the addition of Rs. 1,28,19,169\/- made by the Assessing Officer (\u2018AO\u2019) by way of disallowance of the expenses debited as cost of Employees Stock Option (\u2018ESOP\u2019) in profit and loss account?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/cit-vs-lemon-tree-hotels-ltd-delhi-high-court-s-371-cost-of-employees-stock-option-esop-debited-to-pl-ac-is-allowable-business-expenditure\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-judgements","category-high-court","judges-s-muralidhar-j","judges-vibhu-bakhru-j","section-287","counsel-ved-jain","court-delhi-high-court","catchwords-business-expenditure","catchwords-esop","genre-domestic-tax"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}