Ravi Agrawal vs Union Of India 2024 INSC 648 – S 80DD Income Tax Act

Income Tax Act,1961- Section 80DDFinance Act, 2022 – Deduction in respect of maintenance including medical treatment of a dependent who is a person with disability.–On attaining the age of 60 years or more by an individual subscriber or a member of an HUF, the payment or deposit to the scheme envisaged under Section 80DD can be discontinued and the monetary benefit which would have accumulated can be made use of -We do not think that the plea for retrospective operation of the amendment is in the interest of the disabled persons nor can this Court give a retrospective operation to the amendment. This is particularly having regard to the fact that an insurance contract is in a sense, a commercial contract, having certain terms and conditions and the sub-stratum of the contract cannot be removed by giving a retrospective operation to the amendment. (Para 8)

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