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2015 (3) TMI 445 - AT - Income TaxCharitable activity u/s 2(15) - Exemption available u/s 11 and u/s 80G - assessee involved in technical support training research and reserves material related to participatory development since its inception - Assessing Officer opined that the assessee involves carrying on activities in the nature of running services in relation to trade commerce or business as applicable in providing consultancy workshop training program conducting research on behalf of other agency hence it does not deserve any relief - non-approval of continuance of exemption under section 80G(5)(vi)- Held that - Activities of the assessee can in no way be covered in trade commerce etc. as it is not charging any fee from the beneficiaries who are poor communities. It is also worth noting that the NGOs who have engaged the assessee are itself charitable institutions like WHO UNICEF etc. and they ensure that the grant etc. given to the assessee are fully utilized only for the purpose of charitable activities and not for any business. The assessee did not have any receipt in excess of expenditure during the year. The books of account clearly show that no amount of current receipt or out of unutilized receipt of the past has been treated as profit in the sense it would be treated had it been a business and that no amount has ever been given to any member of the board of the society or any member of the assessee society except the reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with the board s meeting. It is also not the case of the department that any part of profit or gain shown as receipt over expenditure has been transferred to any member of the society. Thus the activity of the assessee society is certainly not for making profit and it is certainly not in the nature of any trade business or commerce so as to be headed by the first proviso to sec. 2(15) of the Act even if it is treated as advancement of any general public utility. The activities as discussed hereinabove of the present assessee cannot be held to be engaged in the activity of advancement of any other object of general public utility. The activities carried on by the assessee cannot be said to be beyond its main aims and objects and it is also an undisputed fact that the assessee society continued to enjoy registration under sec. 12A of the Act as a charitable trust and that the charitable purpose for which the assessee society was established remained unchanged. Under the circumstances we while setting aside the first appellate order as well as order of the learned DIT(E) direct the Assessing Officer to allow the assessee the claimed exemption under sec. 11(12) of the Act and the ld. DIT(E) is directed to allow the application of the assessee for continuance of the approval granted under sec. 80G(5)(vi) of the Income-tax Act 1961. - Decided in favour of assessee.
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