Case Law Details
Young Indian Vs CIT (Exemption) (ITAT Delhi)
ITAT Delhi has dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea to make Young Indian a charitable trust. Rejecting the application, the ITAT Delhi said that it is a commercial organization. With the rejection of the application, the income tax case of 100 crore rupees against him will open again.
Here, in this case, as we have gathered from the material facts on record and discussed in detail, the assessee at the time of seeking registration itself has concealed the material facts and not disclosed the entire events of transactions which had undergone from the date of inception of assessee company till the grant of registration and one of the conditions on which the registration has been granted stood violated from the day one and therefore, under these circumstances, the ld. CIT(E) was fully justified in law and on facts in cancelling the registration from the date of granting of registration itself, i.e., from the assessment year 2011-12. Secondly, here in this case it has been found that even after grant of registration u/s. 12AA, no genuine activities have been carried out by the assessee either in furtherance of its objects or otherwise, which can be held to be for charitable purpose because one of the so called purpose of acquiring AJL was not carried out at all. Otherwise, also, we have already discussed and given our categorical findings that till the grant of registration and surrender made by the assessee, no worthwhile activities were carried out by AJL. In fact, what it turns out to be is that, the assessee has acquired AJL, a company that owns property worth hundreds of crores from which the AJL had been enjoying only rental income. Clearly, AJL, which had been earning rental income, cannot be held that its activities were aligned with the objects of the assessee company or through AJL; it was carrying out activities in pursuance of its objects qua that period. Hence, in that sense, the assessee’s activities cannot be held to be genuine. Thus, the cancellation of registration u/s 12AA by the Ld. CIT (E) from A.Y. 2011-12 is upheld.
FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT JUDGEMENT
01 The aforesaid appeal has been filed by Young Indian [ in short ‘YI’] , appellant-assessee against impugned order dated 26.10.2017, passed by the ld. CIT(Exemption), New Delhi, cancelling the registration u/s. 12AA(3) of the Income-tax Act, 1961[ In short “ The Act’] , granted earlier to the assessee u/s. 12A r.w.s. 12AA, vide certificate dated 09.05.2011 w.e.f. assessment year 2011-12.
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