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2015 (7) TMI 615 - AT - Income TaxDisallowing the depreciation - assessee is a trust - Held that:- As relying on the Anjuman-E-Himayath-E-Islam [2015 (7) TMI 594 - ITAT CHENNAI] the assessee will not be entitled to claim the benefit of depreciation while computing income for the purpose of Section-11 of the Act. However, if the benefit of section-11 is denied and when the income of the assessee trust is computed under the other heads of the Act, then of course the benefit of depreciation can be availed by the assessee in accordance with relevant provisions of the Act. Decided against the assessee. Disallowance of benefit of carry forward of the excess expenditure of the previous year for setting off the same in the current year's income for the purpose of section-11 - Held that:- When the Trust applies its funds from its Corpus, accumulated fund, Sundry creditors or from the loan obtained by the Trust, then such funds which are applied cannot be said to be funds applied from the income of the Trust. Therefore, there cannot be a case where the trust can apply its income more than the income received by it for the purpose of Section-11(1)(a)&(b) of the Act. Thus excess application of fund over and above the income of the Trust can arise only when funds are applied from the Corpus of the Trust, accumulated fund, Loan obtained by the Trust or goods and services received from Sundry Creditors. It can be logical to deduce that when funds are applied from borrowed funds or by way of Sundry creditors the same can be treated as application of fund in the year in which such Loan/Sundry creditors are repaid from the income of the Trust. However when amount is applied from the corpus fund or accumulated fund the same cannot be treated as application of fund for the purpose of Section 11 of the Act, because such fund have already been exempt from the income of the Trust in the year in which it is received or such amount is set aside and therefore once again treating the same as application of fund will amount to double deduction. Similarly voluntary contribution received toward Corpus is exempt from income of the trust in the year in which it is received and therefore when it is utilized for the objects of the Trust it cannot be considered as application of fund otherwise it will amount to double deduction. From the above factual and mathematical matrix it is evident that carry forward of excess application of fund in the commercial principles cannot be allowed as per the provisions of the Act because it would result in notional application of income in the subsequent year. Thus we hereby hold that the claim of the assessee to carry forward the excess application of fund cannot be entertained applying the commercial principles - Decided against assessee.
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