Dismissing the appeal of the revenue the revenue the Court held that as the project was not in operation during said year and it lodged a claim for refund of excise duty with Director General of Foreign Trade as deemed export benefits, since amount of excise duty related to cost of acquisition of capital assets/project, refund of excise duty would ultimately reduce cost of project and could not be treated as business income. (AY. 2011-12)
PCIT v. Maithon Power Ltd. (2021) 124 taxmann.com 204 (Delhi)(HC) Editorial : SLP of revenue is dismissed, PCIT v. Maithon Power Ltd. (2021) 277 Taxman 406 (SC)
S. 28(iiic) : Business income-Duty Customs or Excise repaid-Capital asset-Project was not in operation Reduce cost of project-Cannot be assessed as income. [S. 4, 145]