{"id":3425,"date":"2011-07-07T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2011-07-07T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:31:11","slug":"cit-vs-raychem-rpg-ltd-bombay-high-court-erp-software-expenditure-allowable-as-revenue-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/cit-vs-raychem-rpg-ltd-bombay-high-court-erp-software-expenditure-allowable-as-revenue-expenditure\/","title":{"rendered":"CIT vs. Raychem RPG Ltd (Bombay High Court)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/?dl_id=469\" onclick=\"if (event.button==0) \r\n     setTimeout(function () { window.location = 'http:\/\/itatonline.org\/downloads.php?varname=dl_id=469&varname2=raychem_ERP_software_revenue_expenditure.pdf'; }, 100)\" ><strong>Click here to download the judgement (raychem_ERP_software_revenue_expenditure.pdf) <\/strong> <\/a><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nERP Software Package Allowable As Revenue Expenditure<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The assessee, engaged in manufacturing of telecommunication and power cable accessories and trading in oil retracing system and other products, incurred expenditure of Rs. 23 lakhs on purchase of \u201c<em>Enterprises Resources Planning (ERP) package<\/em>\u201d. The AO treated the expenditure as <em>capital <\/em>in nature. The Tribunal applied the <em>functional test<\/em> laid down by the Special Bench (<em>presumably <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/index.php\/amway-india-vs-dcit-itat-delhi-special-bench\">Amway India Enterprise vs. CIT<\/a><\/strong> 111 ITD 112 (Del)) and held that the expenditure was allowable as a deduction on the basis that the <strong><em>software facilitated the assessee&#8217;s trading operations or enabling the management to conduct the assessee&#8217;s business more efficiently or more profitably but it is not in the nature of profit making apparatus<\/em><\/strong>. The department filed an appeal before the High Court. HELD dismissing the appeal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn our view, <strong>no fault can be found in the aforesaid order of ITAT holding that software expenditure was allowable as revenue expenditure<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"journal2\">\nSee also <strong>CIT vs. Varinder Agro<\/strong> 309 ITR 272 (P&#038;H) where it was held, following <strong>Alembic Chemical<\/strong> 177 ITR 377 (SC), that as software gets outdated fast, it is revenue expenditure\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERP Software Package Allowable As Revenue Expenditure The assessee, engaged in manufacturing of telecommunication and power cable accessories and trading in oil retracing system and other products, incurred expenditure of Rs. 23 lakhs on purchase of \u201cEnterprises Resources Planning (ERP) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/cit-vs-raychem-rpg-ltd-bombay-high-court-erp-software-expenditure-allowable-as-revenue-expenditure\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIT vs. Raychem RPG Ltd (Bombay High Court)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-judgements","category-high-court"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","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=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}