Court Rejects Revenue's Interpretation: Charitable Trusts Can Register u/s 12AA Without Prior Activity Proof.

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....Exemption u/s 11 - registration u/s 12AA - Since by definition a charitable trust is not one which makes profits and if we accept the interpretation of the Revenue that first the activities of the trust must commence and its genuineness ascertained before the Principal Commissioner registers it, we would be asking the trust to carry on activities perhaps at a loss to the corpus or by compromising on the quality of such activities if the expenditure is done from the interest on the corpus because no one will donate money to a trust knowing that it is not tax deductable. - HC....