Income Tax Act, 1967.

Relief under Case IV for losses.

310.—(1) Where in any year of assessment a person sustains a loss in any transaction (being a transaction of such kind that, if any profits had arisen therefrom, he would have been liable to be assessed in respect thereof under Case IV of Schedule D) in which he engages, whether solely or in partnership, he may claim that the amount of the said loss shall, as far as may be, be deducted from or set off against the amount of profits or gains on which he is assessed under the said Case IV for that year and that any portion of the loss for which relief is not so given shall be carried forward and, as far as may be, deducted from or set off against the amount of profits or gains on which he is assessed under the said Case IV for any subsequent year of assessment.

(2) In the application of this section to a loss sustained by a partner in a partnership, “the amount of profits or gains on which he is assessed” shall, in respect of any year, be taken to mean such portion of the amount on which the partnership is assessed under Case IV of Schedule D as he would be required under this Act to include in a return of his total income for that year.

(3) Any relief under this section by way of carrying forward any portion of a loss shall be given as far as possible from the first subsequent assessment, and so far as it cannot be so given then from the next assessment and so on.