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Issues: Whether a credit co-operative society, which accepts deposits and provides credit facilities only to its members, can be treated as a co-operative bank so as to deny deduction under section 80P of the Income-tax Act, 1961, by invoking section 80P(4), and whether the income from such activities remains eligible for deduction under section 80P(2)(a)(i) and section 80P(2)(d).
Analysis: The Tribunal noted that the society's activities were confined to its members and there was no provision of banking facilities to the public at large. It accepted the finding that the bye-laws did not authorise banking activity and that the material on record did not show the provision of typical banking facilities such as cheque books or drafts. Relying on the jurisdictional High Court's view and the statutory definition of banking in section 5(b) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Tribunal held that deposits and lending transactions between a co-operative society and its members do not amount to banking with the public. On that basis, the assessee could not be classified as a co-operative bank and section 80P(4) was not attracted.
Conclusion: The assessee was held to be a co-operative society and not a co-operative bank, and the deduction claimed under section 80P could not be denied.
Final Conclusion: The Revenue's challenge failed because the assessee's member-restricted credit activities did not amount to banking activity within the meaning of the banking law, leaving the deduction under section 80P intact.
Ratio Decidendi: A co-operative society that provides deposit and credit facilities only to its members, without transacting with the public as a bank, is not a co-operative bank for the purpose of denying deduction under section 80P.
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