TMI Blog2020 (3) TMI 621X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of the religious and charitable trust can only be achieved by incurring expenditure and in order to incur that expenditure, the trust should have an income. So long as the expenditure incurred is on religious or charitable purposes, it is the expenditure properly incurred by the trust, and the income from out of which that expenditure is incurred, would not be liable to tax. The expenditure, if incurred in an earlier year is adjusted against the income of a later year, it has to be held that the trust had incurred expenditure on religious and charitable purposes from the income of the subsequent year, even though the actual expenditure was in the earlier years, if in the books of account of the trust such earlier expenditure had been set o ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... AO there was no provision in the Act for carry forward of excess expenditure of earlier year to be adjusted against income of the subsequent year and he therefore denied the claim of the Assessee. 4. On appeal by the assessee, the CIT(A) directed the AO to allow the claim of the Assessee. Aggrieved by the order of CIT(A), the Assessee has raised ground no.3 before the Tribunal. 5. The learned DR reiterated the stand of the AO that there is no provision in the Act to allow carry forward of excess application of income for set off as application of income in subsequent years. The ld. counsel for the Assessee relied on the order of the CIT(A) and the decisions referred to in his orders in support of the claim of the Assessee. 6. We ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... cost of which has been fully allowed as application of income under s. 11 in past years. In Govindu Naicker Estate VS. ADIT 248 ITR 368 (Mad), the Hon ble Madras High Court held that the income of the trust has to be arrived at having due regard to the commercial principles, that s. 11 is a benevolent provision, and that the expenditure incurred on religious or charitable purposes in earlier year or years can be adjusted against the income of the subsequent year. The principle that the loss incurred under one head can only be set off against the income from the same head is not of any relevance, if the expenditure incurred was for religious or charitable purposes, and the expenditure adjusted against the income of the trust in a subsequen ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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