mangaluru the national company law tribunals nclts should be empowered by law to grant relief on any tax that may be imposed on any waiver of accrued interest with regard to stressed assets referred for resolution under the insolvency and bankruptcy code the assocham has said in its communication to finance minister arun jaitleywhere any outstanding liability inclusive of any accrued interest in respect of the entity for which the resolution plan is approved ie corporate debtor is waived in accordance with the approved resolution plan such waiverwriteback may attract tax under both normal and minimum alternate tax mat provisionsthis will burden the stressed enterprise with huge transactional tax liability and make the resolution process unviable as the new resolution applicant and the stressed business have to shell out this additional sum which in some case may reach upto 35 per cent of the waived liability the chamber secretary general f s rawat said in his letter to jaitleynclt should be authorized to grant relief on such waiverwriteback of outstanding liabilities under normal as well as under mat there are certain provisions of the income tax act which cast huge tax liabilities in the process of resolution which if required to be discharged in absence of statutory protection would defeat the entire purpose of resolution as there will hardly any money left for revival of the assetbesides the resolution plan would involve transfer assignment issue of shares and securities for infusion of capital and transfer of ownership of stressed business and other immovable assets which may not be at the book value or fair market value as defined in law it may thus result into huge transactional tax liability in hands of stressed business or the new resolution applicant on a notional income seriously jeopardizing the viability of plan