Co-operative society's mandatory reserve and share capital fixed deposits with banks-interest treated as business income under 80P(2)(a)(iii) deductio...
Income tax reassessment reopening after four years on investigation tip, without s.147 proviso disclosure failure, struck down as borrowed satisfactio...
Whether captive solar power generation qualifies as "charitable purpose" under section 2(15)/12AB/80G: tribunal applied the predominant-object test-charitable activity must confer benefit on the public or a sufficiently wide class and not chiefly serve private gain; incidental private benefit is permissible but exclusive benefit to a promoter/related entity negates public character. Finding that the plant's dominant object was to supply power to the corporate shareholder (a captive/commercial venture), not public benefit, registration/recognition under sections 12AB and 80G was rightly refused. - ITAT
Whether captive solar power generation qualifies as "charitable purpose" under section 2(15)/12AB/80G: tribunal applied the predominant-object test-charitable activity must confer benefit on the public or a sufficiently wide class and not chiefly serve private gain; incidental private benefit is permissible but exclusive benefit to a promoter/related entity negates public character. Finding that the plant's dominant object was to supply power to the corporate shareholder (a captive/commercial venture), not public benefit, registration/recognition under sections 12AB and 80G was rightly refused. - ITAT
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