(1.) ON applications of the revenue made under section 256(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as " the Act") the Tncome-tax Appellate Tribunal, Bombay Bench, has stated these cases and referred the following questions for the opinion of the court:
(2.) IN regard to the assessment year 1963-64, the following question has also been referred :
(3.) WE shall first examine the tenability of the claim for depreciation and development rebate in respect of the technical know-how report and the contributions made to the hospitals. The Tribunal has found in the assessment year 1963-64 that the assessee claimed under the head of operational and other expenses a sum of Rs. 1,25,190. Out of this amount, the Income-tax Officer found that Rs. 481 had been spent in connection with execution of the agreement relating to the use by the assessee in their factory at Belpahar of the patent devised by one Mr. Russel P. Hauer. The balance amount had been paid for preparation of the technical know-how report as per Clause 5(a) of the agreement dated December 12, 1961. The Income-tax Officer treated this as a capital expenditure and the Appellate Assistant Commissioner upheld that conclusion. The Tribunal in paragraph 28 of its appellate decision came to hold: