Chartered Accountant
618 Points
Joined February 2015
An assessee is free to adopt an accounting method -mercantile or cash – or even a method of accounting which is regularly employed by it . The basic thing is that the accounting system adopted should be fair and should be followed regularly. This is what section 145 of the I T Act provides
So If you consitently followed Mercantile System for income tax you have to follow that only