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Recently, the Hon’ble Supreme Court (‘SC’) in the case of M/s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd has ruled regarding the taxability of waiver of a loan acquired for capital purposes under section 28(iv) and section 41(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’). SC held that waiver of loan acquired for capital purposes is neither a perquisite under section 28(iv) nor cessation of a trading liability under section 41(1) of the Act.

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