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2021 (10) TMI 468 - HC - Income TaxExemption u/s 10 (23C) (iiiad) denied - clubbing the voluntary contributions received by the appellant Society with the receipts of the educational institution - HELD THAT:- Once that difference of the receipts was acknowledged by the assessing authority, there was absolutely no other material existing to treat the donations received by the Society to be receipts of the Institution. Further reasoning offered by the appellate authority to affirm the order of the assessing authority is wholly erroneous and contrary to law. Merely because the assessee Society was the person running the Institution, it did not cause any legal effect of depriving the benefit of Section 10(23C)(iiiad) which was activity specific and had nothing to do with the other income of the same assessee. Tribunal has also erred in looking at provisions Section 12 AA of the Act and the fact that the donations received by the Society may not have been received with any specific instructions. It is not relevant in the facts of the present case. It is so because here the assessee had only claimed the benefit of Section 10(23C)(iiiad) with respect to the receipts of the Institution, Information Management and Technology and it had not claimed any benefit with respect to the donations received by the Society. There would be no clubbing of the receipts of the Institution with the other income of the Society, for the purpose of considering the benefit of Section 10(23C)(iiiad).The question of law is answered in the negative i.e. in favour of the assessee and against the Revenue.
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