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2022 (8) TMI 201 - AT - Income TaxRectification application u/s 154 - exemption u/s 10(23)(C)(iiiad) - claim for the first time by filing rectification application u/s 154 - CIT(A) observed that the assessee has incurred expenses towards Tree Plantation Programme and Women Welfare Programme which are not for educational purposes and society is not existing solely for educational purposes as is required u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) - HELD THAT:- As observed that the recognition granted Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University , Faizabad is effective from 01.07.2012 for next three years to ‘Dayashankar Jagdish Bahadur Mahila University , Lohangi, Pratapgarh, U.P.’, and presently we are concerned with ay: 2011-12(previous year 2010-11), thus for the year under consideration , the assessee was not holding any recognition from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University , Faizabad and wrong contentions were raised by assessee. As pertinent to mention that the assessee never claimed exemption u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) in its return of income filed with the Department, rather it claimed exemption 11 and 12 of the 1961 Act, despite the fact that it never held registration u/s 12A at the relevant point of time. The assessee did not file revised return of income to claim exemption u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) , rather originally the assessee filed belated return of income which infact could not have been revised u/s 139(5). The assessee set up claim for the first time for grant of exemption u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) by filing rectification application u/s 154 of the 1961 Act. As held in Pr. CIT v. Wipro [2022 (7) TMI 560 - SUPREME COURT] that scope in filing revised return is to only correct omissions and errors , rather than bringing an altogether new claim in revised return of income. In the instant case before us, the assessee has not even filed revised return of income claiming exemption u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) which infact the assessee could not have filed as originally the assessee filed belated return of income, rather this new claim of exemption u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) was set up for the first time by assessee through rectification application u/s 154. The scope of Section 154 is very narrow and restricted to only correcting mistakes apparent from record, and in case if the claim of the assessee requires long drawn deliberations and reasoning , it cannot be covered u/s 154. Thus, in our considered view , setting up of a new claim of exemption u/s 10(23C)(iiiad) for the first time through a rectification application u/s 154 of the 1961 Act is itself not permissible keeping in view the limited and narrow mandate of Section 154. Also that now withdrawing the exemption claim u/s 11 and 12 by filing rectification application u/s 154 , will falsify the accountants report u/s 12A(b) filed along with the return of income. Thus an altogether new claim cannot be set up even by filing revised return of income, as the scope in filing revised return of income is to correct omissions and errors, rather than bringing altogether new claim in revised return of income. - Decided against assessee.
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