https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=295866 A charitable hospital does not lose property tax exemption merely because it collects nominal charges from some patients, where the institution remains genuinely charitable and the collections are used for treatment and expansion of medical facilities. The Madras HC noted that the trust was a public charitable trust, its objects were charitable, and similar exemption had already been recognised for its other hospitals. As the statute exempts buildings and lands belonging to charitable hospitals and dispensaries, the refusal to extend the benefit to the Coimbatore and Salem hospitals lacked a sufficient basis and was unsustainable. en-us Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:09:34 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=295866 A charitable hospital does not lose property tax exemption merely because it collects nominal charges from some patients, where the institution remains genuinely charitable and the collections are used for treatment and expansion of medical facilities. The Madras HC noted that the trust was a public charitable trust, its objects were charitable, and similar exemption had already been recognised for its other hospitals. As the statute exempts buildings and lands belonging to charitable hospitals and dispensaries, the refusal to extend the benefit to the Coimbatore and Salem hospitals lacked a sufficient basis and was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=295866