Tuesday, 18 October 2011

‘Can’t lawyers get I-T waiver for heart operation? Shanti Bhushan.Very interesting


‘Can’t lawyers get I-T waiver for heart op?’

New Delhi: If a bowler gets income tax deduction for expenses incurred on operation of his bowling arm and a vocalist for money spent on surgery to set right his vocal chord, why can’t a lawyer be entitled to similar benefit for a bypass surgery?

    Former law minister and key Team Anna member Shanti Bhushan on Monday shed his advocate’s band in the Supreme Court to argue his own case of bypass surgery while drawing a parallel to a bowler and a vocalist to claim I-T benefit.

    The SC issued notice to commissioner income tax, which denied Bhushan the relief. He had appealed against a Delhi HC order, which took the view that money spent by Bhushan on bypass surgery could not be treated as an allowable deductable expense. Bhushan is seeking deduction of Rs 1,74,000, which he spent on coronary surgery in Houston in the US in 1982, from his income before it is subjected to taxation. He had suffered a heart attack in December 1978. He had argued that the heart of the professional would be regarded as a ‘plant’ for the purpose of Section 31 of Income Tax Act to enable the expense of the operation being regarded as cost of repair of a plant used for the profession.

    The I-T tribunal said since a lawyer used his brain and not his heart for his profession, the bypass surgery costs could not be allowed as a deductible expense. Rejecting Bhushan’s appeal, the HC held that if the heart of the human being was to be considered a plant, it would necessarily mean that it was an asset, which should have found mention in Bhushan’s balance sheet of the previous year as also in the earlier years. 

The Times Of India Mumbai;

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