TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2016 (11) TMI 1630
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....per our considered opinion the effective grounds of appeal raised by the revenue is "whether ld Commissioner (Appeals) erred in deleting the disallowance of Rs. 4 838514/". 2. The brief facts of the case are that assessee a Cooperative Credit Society filed its returns of income for relevant assessment year on 28 September 2012 declaring total income at Rs. Nill. In the return of income assessee claimed deduction under section 80P (2)(a)(i) being a Cooperative Society. The case was selected for scrutiny and while framing assessment order the AO disallowed the claim of assessee in its order dated 18 Feb 2015. On appeal by the assessee before Commissioner (Appeals) the deduction claimed by assessee was allowed. Thus further aggrieved by the o....
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....tion 80P(2)(a)(i) of the Act. It is appellant's case that, it is not carrying on the business of the banking. Consequently, not being a co-operative bank the provisions of Section 80P(4) of the Act would not exclude the appellant from claiming the benefit of deduction under Section 80P(2)(a)(i) of the Act. However in terms of Section 80P of the Act the meaning of the words Cooperative Bank is the meaning assigned to it in Chapter V of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. A cooperative bank is defined in Section 5(cci) of Banking Regulation Act to mean a State Cooperative Bank, a Central Cooperative Bank and a primary cooperative bank. Admittedly, the appellant is not a State Cooperative Bank, a Central Cooperative Bank. Thus what has to be....
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....nclusion that it is carrying on banking business. This fact of accepting deposits from people who are not members has been so recorded by the CIT(A) in his order dated 15 July, 2014. Before the Tribunal also the appellant did not dispute the fact that in a few cases they have dealt with non members. However so far as accepting deposits from non members is concerned it is submitted that the Bye-law 43 only permits the society to accept deposits from its members. It is submitted that Bye laws 43 does not permit receipt of deposits from persons other then members, the word "any person" is a gloss added in the impugned order as it is not found in Bye law 43. It is undisputed that the transactions with non members are insignificant/miniscule. O....
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....Bank as provided in Section 5(ccv) of the Banking Regulation Act is concerned, the same requires the Bye laws of society to contain a prohibition from admitting any other cooperative society as its member. In fact the bye-laws of the appellant society originally in bye-law 9(d) clearly provided that no co-operative society shall be admitted to the membership of the society. Thus there was a bar but the same was amended w.e.f 12 January, 2001 as to permit a society to be admitted to the membership of the society. Therefore for the subject assessment years there is no prohibition to admitting a society to its membership and one of three cumulative conditions precedent to be a primary cooperative bank is not satisfied. However the impugned ord....
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....s, the appellant is entitled to the benefit of deduction available under Section 80P(2)(a)(i) of the Act. 13. The contention of Ms. Dessai, learned Counsel for the revenue that the appellant is not entitled to the benefit of Section 80P(2)( a)(i) of the Act in view of the fact that it deals with non-members cannot be upheld.' This for the reason that Section 80P(1) of the Act restricts the benefits of deduction of income of co-operative society to the extent it is earned by providing credit facilities to its members. Therefore, to the extent the income earned is attributable to dealings with the non-members are concerned the benefit of Section 80P of the Act would not be available. In the above view of the matter, at the time when effe....
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....ulated by the provisions of the 1949 Act. Section 80P(4) therefore is clearly attractive to such an institution. But not to credit society. Even while dealing with a Co-operative Bank sub-section (4) has taken care to ensure that the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies and Primary Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks are kept out of the purview of the said provision. Sub-section (4) of Section 80P therefore, in its application is confined ill relation to Co-operative Banks only. In the instant case the Assessee being a Co-operative Credit Society which in turn is providing for certain credit facilities to its members alone but not to the general public at large and which also does not receive monies by way of deposit from....