Cooperative societies' member receipts, like non-occupancy and transfer charges, are tax-exempt under mutuality doctrine.

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....Doctrine of mutuality - receipts by cooperative societies, from its members i.e. non-occupancy charges, transfer charges, common amenity fund charges and certain other charges, are exempt from income tax - the receipts cannot be bifurcated into two segments of receipt and costs, so as to hold the former to be outside the purview of mutuality classifying it as income of the society with commerciality - SC....