TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2020 (12) TMI 926
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....peal the assessee derived interest income of Rs. 10,13,129/- from saving bank account and fixed deposits with Co-operative Banks. The assessee claimed deduction of the aforesaid amount under section 80P(2)(d) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 ( in short 'the Act'). The Assessing Officer in scrutiny assessment proceedings disallowed assessee's claim of deduction under section 80P(2)(d) of the Act on the ground that after insertion of sub-section (4) to section 80P, the Co-operative Banks have been taken outside the purview of section 80P of the Act. Aggrieved by the assessment order dated 22/12/2012 passed under section 143(3) of the Act, the assessee filed appeal before the CIT(A). The CIT(A) dismissed the appeal of assessee and upheld the findin....
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....the order reads as under: - "7. We have deliberated at length on the issue under consideration and are unable to persuade ourselves to be in agreement with the view taken by the lower authorities. Before proceeding further, we may herein reproduce the relevant extract of the said statutory provision, viz. Sec. 80P(2)(d), as the same would have a strong bearing on the adjudication of the issue before us: "80P(2)(d) (1) Where in the case of an assessee being a co-operative society, the gross total income includes any income referred to in sub-section (2), there shall be deducted, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this section, the sum specified in sub-section (2), in computing the total income of t....
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....ven a thoughtful consideration to the issue before us and are of the considered view that as long as it is proved that the interest income is being derived by a co-operative society from its investments made with any other cooperative society, the claim of deduction under the aforesaid statutory provision, viz. Sec. 80P(2)(d) would be duly available. We may herein observe that the term 'co-operative society' had been defined under Sec. 2(19) of the Act, as under:- '(19) "Co-operative society" means a cooperative society registered under the Cooperative Societies Act, 1912 (2 of 1912), or under any other law for the time being in force in any state for the registration of co-operative societies;' We are of t....
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....rest income earned by the assessee on its investments held with a co-operative bank would be eligible for claim of deduction under Sec. 80P(2)(d) of the Act. Still further, we find that the CBDT Circular No. 14, dated 28.12.2006, as had been relied upon by the ld. A.R, also makes it clear beyond any scope of doubt, that the purpose behind enactment of sub-section (4) of Sec. 80P was to provide that the co-operative banks which are functioning at par with other banks would no more be entitled for claim of deduction under Sec. 80P(4) of the Act. We are of the considered view that the reliance placed by the CIT (A) on the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Totgars Co-operative Sale Society Ltd. (supra) being distinguishab....
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.....R on the judgment of the Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka in the case of Totagars cooperative Sale Society (supra), the High Court had concluded that a cooperative society would not be entitled to claim of deduction under Sec. 80P(2)(d). We however find that as held by the Hon'ble High Court of Bombay in the case of K. Subramanian v. Siemens India Ltd. [1983] 15 Taxman 594/[1985] 156 ITR 11 (Bom), where there is a conflict between the decisions of non-jurisdictional High Court's, then a view which is in favour of the assessee is to be preferred as against that taken against him. Thus, taking support from the aforesaid judicial pronouncement of the Hon'ble High Court of jurisdiction, we respectfully follow the view taken by t....