TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2023 (8) TMI 1060
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....ion 154 of the Act concerning Assessment Year 2019-20. 2. As per the grounds of appeal, the assessee has challenged the denial of deduction claimed under Section 80P of the Act while drawing intimation under Section 143(1) of the Act on the premise that the assessee has not filed the return of income within the due date specified under Section 139(1) of the Act for the A.Y. 2019-20 in question. 3. When the matter was called for hearing, the Learned Counsel submitted that the deduction has been denied taking shelter of Section 80AC(ii) of the Act. In this regard, it was submitted that the assessee has filed and uploaded the return which is belated by only one day on account of technical difficulties in the Income-tax site. It was further s....
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....bmissions. The denial of benefit of deduction under Section 80P of the Act in response of belated return is in issue. In the instant case, the return was filed belatedly under Section 139(4) of the Act. While drawing the intimation under Section 143(1) of the Act, the CPC, Bengaluru has denied the claim of deduction under Section 80P of the Act owing to ROI filed after due date. The assessee sought rectification thereof under Section 154 of the Act which was reported. The CIT(A) in the first appeal also refused to entertain rectification of mistake towards aforesaid deduction claimed under Section 80P of the Act. Hence, in this appeal. 6. We find that the issue is no longer res integra. The identical issue has come up before the Co-ordinat....
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....80P of the Act be denied to the assessee, by way of adjustment under section 143(1) of the Act. On going through the statutory provisions, we observe that 80AC of the Act provides that no such deduction under section 80P of the Act shall be allowed to an assessee unless he furnishes a return of his income on or before the due date specified under section 139(1) w.e.f. assessment year 2018-19 onwards. However, section 143(1)(a)(v) of the Act provides that disallowance of deduction claimed under any of the provisions of Chapter VI-A under the heading "C.-Deductions in respect of certain incomes" (which includes deduction under section 80P of the Act), can be made if the return is furnished beyond the due date specified under sub-section (1) o....
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....ion 80P of the Act can be denied to the assessee, in case the assessee does not file its return of income within the time prescribed under section 139(1) of the Act with effect from 01-04-2021 and does not apply to the impugned assessment year i.e. assessment year 2019-20 relevant to financial year 2018-19. Accordingly, in our considered view, denial of claim under section 80P of the Act would not come within the purview of prima facie adjustment under section 143(1)(a)(v) of the Act, for the simple reason that the section was not in force during the period under consideration i.e. assessment year 2019-20. 7.2 The second issue for consideration is that whether the case of the assessee would fall within the purview of prima facie adjustmen....
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....section 80-IA or any other section of Chapter VI A, assessee should have filed return of income under section 139(1) and even if it did not make claim for deduction in original return and subsequently file revised return making such claim, its claim for deduction under section 80-IA is maintainable. Therefore, where assessee had filed return under section 139(1), it was entitled to claim deduction under section 80-IA even if such claim was not made in original return but subsequently in revised return filed in response to notice issued under section 153A. In the case of Lanjani Co-Operative Agri Service Society Ltd. (CPC) v. DCIT [2023] 146 taxmann.com 468 (Chandigarh - Trib.), the ITAT held that the enabling provisions of sub-clause (v) of....