Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Income-tax, U.P., Lucknow v. British India Corpn. Ltd., Kanpur

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Reported as [1987] 2 S.C.R. 133
Bench Sabyasachi Mukharji and S. Natarajan JJ.
Decided 3 February 1987

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was G right in the view it took.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1922-s.10(2)(XV)-Assessee Company­ Entering into agreement with another company appointing its nominee as distributors of assessee's products-In lieu of benefit of technical knowledge assessee paid to the distributors for meeting initial expenses of establishment of distributorship-Assessee claiming deduction­ Payment whether capital expenditure or revenue expenditure. The assessee-company entered into an agreement with M/s. Charles Walker and Company, London which, inter alia, stipnlated that the latter wonld permit the nse by the assessee of a number of registered trade

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