A tricky problem

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Friends here is a weekend food for thought:

Suppose A company calls for tender for contruction of a Plant, before submitting the tender the respondents are required to deposit an earnest money which on acceptance of the tender is converted to Security Deposit. After the tender process is over the company set aside the earnest money refundable to the unsuccessful bidders and issued cheques to them, but many people did not turn  up to getting their money back, what will be the tax treatment and accounting treatment of the earnest money which still has not been collected. Please mention the reasons. 

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I think the differentiation should be made for what purpose the tender was called for.    If it is for any capital or non-recurring item, the the EMDs are capital receipts and accordingly should be taken to Capital Reserves and Surplus.

On the otherhand, if it is for revenue or recurring in nature, the same should be taken to Misc. Income and taken to P&L

I would like to hear from other experts too.


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