TMI Blog2023 (2) TMI 134X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... URT] - No direct judgment from the Hon ble jurisdictional High Court on the point having been pointed out, the Tribunal in Shri Laxmi Narayan Nagari Sahakari Pat Sanstha Maryadit [ 2015 (8) TMI 1085 - ITAT PUNE] preferred to go with the view in favour of the assessee by the Hon ble Karnataka High Court in the case of Tumkur Merchants Souharda Credit Cooperative Ltd. [ 2015 (2) TMI 995 - KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] The position continues to remain the same before this Tribunal also. Eligibility of deduction u/s.80P(2)(d) and after considering the language of the section, it is observed that though co-operative banks, other than primary agricultural credit society or a primary co-operative agricultural and rural development bank, are not elig ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... roceeding to dispose them off by this consolidated order for the sake of convenience. ITA No.615/PUN/2022 : 2. In this appeal, the Revenue is aggrieved by the grant of deduction u/s.80P of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter also called the Act ). Briefly stated, the facts of the case, are that the assessee is a co-operative society, who filed return its declaring total income at Rs.32,53,300/-. During the course of assessment proceedings, the Assessing Officer (AO) observed that the assessee claimed deduction u/s.80P in respect of interest income and also dividend on investments with another cooperative society. The assessee s claim that such an amount of interest/dividend was eligible for deduction u/s.80P got jettisoned by t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... i Patsanstha Maryadit Vs. The Pr.CIT (ITA No.713/PUN/2016) has decided the question of availability of deduction u/s 80P on interest income by noticing that the Pune Bench in an earlier case of Shri Laxmi Narayan Nagari Sahakari Pat Sanstha Maryadit Vs. ITO (ITA No.604/PN/2014) has allowed similar deduction. In the said case, the Tribunal discussed the contrary views expressed by the Hon ble Karnataka High Court in Tumkur Merchants Souharda Credit Cooperative Ltd. Vs. ITO (2015) 230 Taxman 309 (Kar.) allowing deduction u/s. 80P on interest income and that of the Hon ble Delhi High Court in Mantola Cooperative Thrift Credit Society Ltd. Vs. CIT (2014) 110 DTR 89 (Delhi) not allowing deduction u/s.80P on interest income earned from banks. Bot ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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