SEO Sai Gr. Hosp.
208788 Points
Joined July 2016
Their Lordships of Supreme Court in the case of Narain Swadeshi Weaving Mills v/s. Com. of EPT 26 ITR 764/765 has held that the term business can note some real substantial and systematic or organised course of activity or conduct with a set purpose. That whether a particular source of income is business or not must be decided according to our ordinary notion as to what a business is. It is true that there is authority for the proposition that even a single or isolated transaction can in a conceivable case amount to business provided that it bears the characteristics of trade. However in view of the fact that use of plural, speculative transactions in explanation 2 to Section 28 clearly shows that in order to constitute speculation business within terms of that explanation, a single transaction of speculation should not be treated as speculation business
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