Section 31 : Characterization of payment for compensation:
In cases where any person or his associated person has received any compensation amount for the following matters including payments for insurance, at the time of receipt of the amount for the compensation, such amount has to be included, as the case may be, in computing the income earned from employment, business or investment:-

 

(a) Compensation for any income earned or likely to be earned by that person from any business or investment or for any amount to be included in the computation of that income, or

(b) Compensation for any loss suffered or likely to be suffered by that person from any business or investment or for any expenses to be deducted in the computation of that income.