The provisions of section 54F mandates the construction of a residential house, within the period specified. However, there is no condition that the building plan of the residential house constructed should be approved by the Municipal Corporation or any other competent authority. If any person constructs a house without approval of building plan, he will be raising construction at his own risk and cost. As far as for availing exemption u/s.54F, approval of building plan is not necessary.
From the provisions of sub-section 4 of section 80P and the Explanation to section 80P, it is evident that the benefit of section 80P is not available to co-operative banks whereas the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies are entitled for the same.
The first item so considered by the assessing authority is the receipts from pharmacy section. It is to be seen that assessee is running a full-fledged general hospital at St. Thomas Mount. The assessing authority has, no doubt
Since there is variation of decisions on ‘paid’ and ‘payable’ issue in view of the fact that the hon’ble Calcutta high court and Gujarat high court have decided the question in favour of the Revenue and the hon’ble Allahabad high court in the case of CIT vs M/s Vector shipping Services (P) Ltd has proceeded in favour of the assessee, the case law of hon’ble supreme court in the case of CIT vs Vegetable Products Ltd., 88 ITR 192 would apply so as to decide the issue in assessee’s favour.
From the above discussion, it transpires that the objective satisfaction of the AO as to the correctness of the assessee’s claim was not recorded in the instant case. However, even if Rule 8D cannot be applied, the AO is obliged to ascertain the expenditure which had been incurred to earn the tax-free income.
We find that the judgment of the Hon’ble Allahabad High Court is in favour of the assessee. At the same time, we find that the orders of the Calcutta High Court and the Gujarat High Court are against the assessee.
In our view, offering of the so called service to a particular section as in the instant case to members of the assessee organization only does not in any way lead to a charitable activity for the purpose of sec.2(15) of the Act.
Some of the investments made by the assessee are short term. Since assessee is paying capital gains tax on short term investments, the provisions of Rule 8D will not apply on them. The Assessing Officer is directed to re¬compute dis-allowance u/s. 14A r.w.r. 8D after excluding short term investments.
The first issue in the appeal of the assessee relates to dis-allowance made u/s. 14A r.w.r. 8D. The Assessing Officer has made dis-allowance to the tune of Rs. 4,32,66,500/-. The contention of the assessee is that the assessee has earned dividend income of Rs. 4.6 Lakhs which is fully exempt u/s.
The assessee had categorically stated that the assessee had claimed deduction under the provisions of section 10B for the first time in the assessment year 1995-96. This fact has been admitted by the Revenue in the assessment year 1999-2000. The assessee has placed on record the order of the CIT(A) dated 21.10.2005 relevant to the assessment year 1999-2000 at page 10 to 16 of the paper book.
