Section 80P Deduction Denied: Assessee Doesn't Qualify as Primary Agricultural Credit Society or Cooperative Agricultural Bank.

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....Disallowance of deduction claimed u/s 80P - As it is clear from the byelaws and particularly primary objects and principle business of the assessee that the assessee is not doing any activity falling in the purview of primary agricultural credit society or a primary cooperative agricultural and rural development bank. The assessee is neither providing any agriculture credit facility nor providing any service of rural development bank. The other conditions as provided under Banking Regulation Act, 1949 for the primary Cooperative Bank are also satisfied in case of the assessee and hence, once the assessee falls in the definition of Cooperative Bank, the benefit of deduction under section 80P is not available to the assessee. - AT....