TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (8) TMI 1968
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.... of clear statutory indication to the contrary, the statute should not be read as to permit an assessee two deductions ? 2. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was correct in not following the decision of the Kerala High Court in the case of Lissie Medical Institutions v. CIT [2012] 348 ITR 344 (Ker) in I. T. A. No. 42 of 2011 wherein the other judicial pronouncements by various high courts were held to be not applicable holding that the issue of double deduction was not before them ? 3. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was right in not appreciating the intention of the Legislature not to allow double deduction at any point of time and therefore, for bringing clarity on the issue, the law has been amended with effect from the assessment year 2015-16 ? 4. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was correct in holding that depreciation is allowable in cases of trust on normal commercial principles, where the assessment of trusts are covered under sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and the provisions of sections 28 to 44 of the Act are not applicable to c....
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....uires consideration by this court is : whether depreciation was allowable on the assets, the cost of which has been fully allowed as application of income under section 11 in the past years ? In the case of CIT v. Munisuvrat Jain [1994] Tax LR 1084 (Bom) the facts were as follows : The assessee was a charitable trust. It was registered as a public charitable trust. It was also registered with the Commissioner, Pune. The assessee derived income from the temple property which was a trust property. During the course of assessment proceedings for the assessment years 1977-78, 1978-79 and 1979-80, the assessee claimed depreciation on the value of the building at the rate of 2.5 per cent. and they also claimed depreciation on furniture at the rate of 5 per cent. The question which arose before the court for determination was : whether depreciation could be denied to the assessee, as expenditure on acquisition of the assets had been treated as application of income in the year of acquisition ? It was held by the Bombay High Court that section 11 of the Income-tax Act makes a provision in respect of computation of income of the trust from properly held for charitable or religious purposes ....
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....he trust. The Income-tax Officer held that depreciation could not be taken into account because, full capital expenditure had been allowed in the year of acquisition of the assets. The assessee went in appeal before the Assistant Appellate Commissioner. The appeal was rejected. The Tribunal, however, took the view that when the Income-tax Officer stated that full expenditure had been allowed in the year of acquisition of the assets, what he really meant was that the amount spent on acquiring those assets had been treated as 'application of income' of the trust in the year in which the income was spent in acquiring those assets. This did not mean that in computing income from those assets in subsequent years, depreciation in respect of those assets cannot be taken into account. This view of the Tribunal has been confirmed by the Bombay High Court in the above judgment. Hence, question No. 2 is covered by the decision of the Bombay High Court in the above judgment. Consequently, question No. 2 is answered in the affirmative, i.e., in favour of the assessee and against the Department." After hearing learned counsel for the parties, we are of the opinion that the aforesaid vi....
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....6 ITR 28 (Karn) and CBDT Circular No. 5-P (LXX)-6 of 1968. We have heard the rival contentions of both the learned Depart mental Representatives for the Revenue and the learned authorised representative for the assessee and perused and carefully considered the material on record, including the judicial pronouncements cited. The facts of the issue before us is that the assessee had incurred certain preliminary expenditure in the year of setting up of the trust. The same is amortised by the assessee-trust over a period of 5 years from the year of incurring of expenditure. The fact of amortization was not disputed by the Assessing Officer in the assessment proceedings for the assessment year 2007-08 where the entire amount was added back claiming 1/5th of the expenditure. The unamortized expenditure has been brought forward and set off as application of income in sub sequent years, including the assessment years 2008-09 and 2009-10 which are under consideration. We find that the issue before us is directly related to the issue decided by the hon'ble Karnataka High Court in the case of Society of the Sisters of St. Anne (supra) cited by the assessee. In the said case, the hon&#....
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....ertaking. The depreciation if it is not allowed as a necessary deduction for computing the income from the charitable institutions, then there is no way to preserve the corpus of the trust for deriving the income. The Board also appears to have understood the "income" under section 11(1) in its commercial sense. The relevant portion of the Circular No. 5-P(LXX-6) of 1968, dated July 19, 1968 reads : "Where the trust derives income from house property, interest on securities, capital gains, or other sources, the word 'income' should be understood in its commercial sense, i.e., book income, after adding back any appropriations or applications thereof towards the purpose of the trust or otherwise, and also after adding back any debits made for capital expenditure incurred for the purposes of the trust or otherwise. It should be noted, in this connection, that the amounts so added back will become chargeable to tax under section 11(3) to the extent that they represent outgoings for purposes other than those of the trust. The amounts spent or applied for the purposes of the trust from out of the income computed in the aforesaid manner, should be not less than 75 per cent. of....