TMI Blog2015 (9) TMI 277X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s for the assessee to write back the depreciation and if that was done, the Assessing Officer would modify the assessment determining higher income and allow recomputed income with the depreciation written back by the assessee to be carried forward for subsequent years for application for charitable purposes - Decided against assessee. Excess application - Tthe assessee cannot claim excess application/expenditure as application of income. 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.Needless to mention that the income of the Trust refers to ‘income derived from the property held under the Trust’ and any ‘voluntary contributions received by the Trust other than contributions made with specific directions that they shall form part of the corpus of the trust’ - Decided against assessee. - ITA No.2930/Mds/2014 - - - Dated:- 21-8-2015 - SHRI N.R.S. GANESAN, J For The Appellant : Sh. A. Kanagaraj, CA For The Respondent : Sh. P. Radhakrishnan, JCIT ORDER This appeal of the assessee is directed against the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ttedly used for assessee s charitable activity. We have carefully gone through the provisions of Section 32 of the Act, which reads as follows: - (1) In respect of depreciation of- (i) buildings, machinery, plant or furniture being tangible assets ; (ii) know-how, patents, copyrights, trade marks, licences, franchises or any other business or commercial rights of similar nature, being intangible assets acquired on or after the 1st day of April, 1998, owned, wholly or partly, by the assessee and used for the purposes of the business or profession the following deductions shall be allowed- (i) in the case of assets of an undertaking engaged in generation or generation and distribution of power, such percentage on the actual cost thereof to the assessee as may be prescribed. (ii) in the case of any block of assets, such percentage on the written down value thereof as may be prescribed: Provided that no deduction shall be allowed under this clause in respect of--(a) any motor car manufactured outside India, where such motor car is acqired by the assessee after the 28th day of February, 1975 5but before the 1st day of April, 2001, unless it is used--(i) in a b ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... respect of depreciation of buildings, machinery, plant or furniture, being tangible assets or know-how, patents, copyrights, trademarks, licences, franchises or any other business or commercial rights of similar nature, being intangible assets allowable to the predecessor and the successor in the case of succession referred to in clause (xiii), clause (xiiib) and clause (xiv) of section 47 or section 170 or to the amalgamating company and the amalgamated company in the case of amalgamation, or to the demerged company and the resulting company in the case of demerger, as the case may be, shall not exceed in any previous year the deduction calculated at the prescribed rates as if the succession or the amalgamation or the demerger, as the case may be, had not taken place, and such deduction shall be apportioned between the predecessor and the successor, or the amalgamating company and the amalgamated company, or the demerged company and the resulting company, as the case may be, in the ratio of the number of days for which the assets were used by them. Explanation - 1. Where the business or profession of the assessee is carried on in a building not owned by him but in respect of w ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... is allowed as a deduction (whether by way of depreciation or otherwise) in computing the income chargeable under the head Profits and gains of business or profession of any one previous year ; (iii) in the case of any building, machinery, plant or furniture in respect of which depreciation is claimed and allowed under clause (i) and which is sold, discarded, demolished or destroyed in the previous year (other than the previous year in which it is first brought into use), the amount by which the moneys payable in respect of such building, machinery, plant or furniture, together with the amount of scrap value, if any, fall short of the written down value thereof : Provided that such deficiency is actually written off in the books of the assessee. Explanation - For the purposes of this clause,-- (1) moneys payable in respect of any building, machinery, plant or furniture includes- (a) any insurance, salvage or compensation moneys payable in respect thereof ; (b) where the building, machinery, plant or furniture is sold, the price for which it is sold, so, however, that where the actual cost of a motor car is, in accordance with the proviso to clause (1) of secti ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... he Act is not applicable. Apart from that, a Division Bench of this Tribunal in The Anjuman-EHimayath- E-Islam v. ADIT in I.T.A. No.2271/Mds/2014 by order dated 2nd July, 2015 considered this issue elaborately and observed as follows:- 5.2 We find this issue is elaborately discussed in the case of Lissie Medical Institution Vs. CIT reported in [2012] 348 ITR 344(Ker.) and held the issue against the assessee. While doing so, the Hon ble Kerala High Court had considered the Circular No.5P(LLX-6) dated 19.06.1968 which has not been considered by the other decisions. The Circular No. 5P(LLX-6) is reproduced herein below for reference:- 1. Circular No. 5-P (LXX-6) of 1968, dated 19-6-1968. Subject : Section 11-Charitable trusts-Income required to be applied for charitable purpose-Instructions regarding. In Board s Circular No. 2-P(LXX-5) of 1963, dated the 15th May, 1963, it was explained that a religious or charitable trust claiming exemption under section 11(1) of the Income- tax Act, 1961, must spend at least 75 per cent of its total income, for religious or charitable purposes. In other words, it was not permitted to accumulate more than 25 per cent of its total income. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ve, will be the income of the trust for purposes of section 11(1). Further, the trust must spend at least 75 per cent of this income and not accumulate more than 25 per cent thereof. The excess accumulation, if any, will become taxable under section 11(1). After considering the Circular, the Hon ble Kerala High Court held as follows:- Held, that after writing off the full value of the capital expenditure on acquisition of assets as application of income for charitable purposes and when the assessee again claimed the same amount in the form of depreciation, such notional claim became a cash surplus available with the assessee, which was outside the books of account of the trust unless it was written back which was not done by the assessee. It was not permissible for a charitable institution to generate income outside the books in this fashion and there would be violation of section 11(1)(a). It was for the assessee to write back the depreciation and if that was done, the Assessing Officer would modify the assessment determining higher income and allow recomputed income with the depreciation written back by the assessee to be carried forward for subsequent years for applicat ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the enactment. ] 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 onc ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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