TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2025 (2) TMI 1637
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....d in confirming an addition of Rs. 20,03,460/- made by the ld. AO by not allowing deduction of Rs. 20,03,460/- claimed by the Appellant u/s 80P. 2. In the facts of the appellants case, it is submitted that the Appellant was indeed entitled to deduction u/s 80P. 2. The assessee is a Co-operating Credit Society registered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 engaged in the business of providing credit facilities to members. The assessee filed the return of income for AY 2014-15 on 28.02.2016 declaring a total income of Rs. 2,42,577/-. During the year under consideration the assessee has received a sum of Rs. 17,90,985 /- as interest from deposits with Co-operative Bank and dividend from MDCC Bank. The assessee ha....
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.... of Rs. 50,39,861 from the investments made in various Co-operative Banks. 9. Before proceeding further, it is relevant to note the provisions of section 80P of the Act under which the assessee has claimed the deduction in the present case. As per the provisions of section 80P(1) of the Act, the income referred to in sub-section (2) to section 80P shall be allowed as a deduction to an assessee being a Cooperative Society. Further, section 80P(2)(d) of the Act, reads as under: "80P. Deduction in respect of income of co-operative societies. (1) ** ** ** (2) The sums referred to in sub-section (1) shall be the following, namely:- (a) to (c) ** ** ** (d) in respect of any income by way of in....
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....ered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act and earned interest, which was claimed as a deduction under section 80P(2)(d) of the Act. The AO denied the deduction under section 80P(2)(d) of the Act on the basis that the Co-operative Bank is covered under the provisions of section 80P(4) of the Act. We find that the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Mavilayi Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. v. CIT [2021] 123 taxmann.com 161/279 Taxman 75/431 ITR 1 while analysing the provisions of section 80P(4) of the Act held that section 80P(4) is a proviso to the main provision contained in section 80P(1) and (2) and excludes only Co-operative Banks, which are Co-operative Societies and also possesses a licence from RBI to do banking business. The Hon'....
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....ssee cooperative society from its investments held with any other cooperative society, shall be deducted in computing the total income of the assessee. We may herein observe, that what is relevant for claim of deduction under sec. 80P(2)(d) is that the interest income should have been derived from the investments made by the assessee co-operative society with any other cooperative society. We though are in agreement with the observations of the lower authorities that with the insertion of sub-section (4) of sec. 80P, vide the Finance Act, 2006, with effect from 1-4-2007, the provisions of sec. 80P would no more be applicable in relation to any co-operative bank, other than a primary agricultural credit society or a primary co-operative agri....
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....e derived by a co-operative society from its investments held with a cooperative bank, would be entitled for claim of deduction under sec.80P(2)(d) of the Act." 13. We find that the learned CIT(A) has placed reliance upon the decision of the Hon'ble Karnataka High Court in Pr. CIT v. Totagars Co-operative Sales Society [2017] 83 taxmann.com 140/395 ITR 611, wherein it was held that interest earned by the assessee, a Co-operative Society, from surplus deposits kept with a Cooperative Bank, was not eligible for deduction under section 80P(2)(d) of the Act. We find that in an earlier decision the Hon'ble Karnataka High Court in Pr. CIT v. Totagars Co-operative Sale Society [2017] 78 taxmann.com 169/392 ITR 74 held that accordi....