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2018 (4) TMI 622 - AT - Income TaxEligibility for exemption u/s 11 & 12 - as per revenue the assessee is not an ‘educational institution’ so as to claim exemption - dominance of profit motive - Held that:- In the present case, there is no allegation, much less any evidence, brought out by the Revenue to say that any amount has been applied by the assessee for purposes other than its stated objects, which ostensibly is in the field of education. Pertinently, upto Assessment Year 2008-09, assessee was accepted to be an entity engaged in education and in even in the captioned years there is no charge against the assessee that any of its activities have undergone any change. Therefore, merely because of insertion of the proviso, the nature of activities do not undergo a change unless it can be made out that profit motive is dominant all-pervading in the activities, an aspect which is absolutely absent in the present case. Therefore, even if we were to go along with the stand of the Assessing Officer that the activities of assessee fall within the expression ‘advancement of any other object of general public utility’ contained in Sec. 2(15) of the Act, even then, from Assessment Year 2009-10 onwards, the insertion of proviso does not take away the benefits of Sections 11 & 12 of the Act from the assessee inasmuch as the proviso does not disentitle the assessee’s activities from being considered as for charitable purpose because of the above discussion. - Decided in favour of assessee.
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