Income received from a charitable/religious trust will be tax-exempt under Section 11, provided that the activity being performed is incidental to the attainment of objectives set by the trust/institution, and separate books of account are maintained by the particular trust/institution pertaining to the business. In this article, we look at some of the major exemptions provided under Section 11 of the Income Tax Act.
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Gujarat High Court held that software consultancy services to parent company located outside India provided on principal to principal basis qualifies as export of service and cannot be considered as intermediary service.
ITAT Delhi directed that a trust lacking 12A registration cannot be taxed on gross receipts; only surplus income applied outside charitable purposes is taxable.
The tribunal held that milk procurement and sale by a charitable society were incidental to its primary object of helping small and marginal farmers, and exemption under Section 11 could not be denied.
The Supreme Court held that at the Section 11 stage, courts only check prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement and must leave all deeper objections to the arbitral tribunal.
The issue was whether certain objects benefiting members disqualified charitable registration. The Tribunal ruled that dominant charitable objects like education and aid to poor students justified granting registration.
The Supreme Court held that an FIR based on previously closed complaints and filed without mandatory sanction is an abuse of process and must be quashed.
The tribunal held that assessments completed through the DRP mechanism remain subject to the outer time limit prescribed under section 153. The key takeaway is that section 144C does not extend or override statutory limitation periods.
The law now mandates a single exemption pathway for charitable institutions, ending the flexibility of parallel regimes. The key takeaway is that once a regime is chosen, procedural compliance becomes binding and decisive.
The Tribunal held that limitation under Section 153 overrides the DRP timeline under Section 144C. As the assessment was completed beyond the statutory outer limit, it was quashed as invalid.
The Tribunal held that a final assessment passed after the expiry of Section 153 is invalid, even if it follows DRP directions. The is that limitation under Section 153 remains mandatory and cannot be bypassed through the DRP route.
