Allowability of Doubtful Loans and Advances

A company has given a loan to the third party amounting to Rs. 35 Lacs in the earlier years. Now, such amount is doubtful for recovery and due in the Books of accounts since a long time. Can company book it as a Bad Debts in the current F.Y and whether it will be allowable expenditure as per IT provisions ?
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This discussion addresses whether a company can book a long-standing, doubtful loan of Rs. 35 Lacs as a bad debt in the current financial year and if it's allowable under Income Tax provisions. The consensus is that if the loan is considered a business debt and has been accounted for in previous income calculations, it can be treated as a bad debt and claimed as an allowable expenditure under the IT Act, provided it's not a personal loan.

It will be treated as NPA and the loan should be shown as bad and doubtful debts. Yes it will be allowed under IT act.
Bad debts [Section-36(1)(vii)]
Such debt or part thereof must have been taken into account in computing the income of the assessee of the previous year or of an earlier previous year, or.
It represents money lent in the ordinary course of the business of banking or money-lending which is carried on by the assessee.
Hope it's a business loan and not a personal loan. If personal and no connection to business then write off do not enable to claim it as bad debts

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