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The Tribunal ruled that disallowance of deduction under Section 80P was beyond the permissible scope of prima facie adjustments under Section 143(1). Relief was granted to the assessee.
ITAT held that a typographical mistake in selecting the wrong sub-clause of Section 80P does not defeat a valid deduction claim. The Tribunal directed the Revenue to grant the full deduction where eligibility was otherwise undisputed.
The Tribunal ruled that the Assessing Officer wrongly invoked Section 154 to withdraw deduction on interest income from co-operative banks. Since the issue is subject to differing judicial interpretations, it falls outside the scope of rectification.
The Tribunal criticized the Assessing Officer for taking a contrary stand in later years after allowing the same deduction on identical facts in an earlier assessment. It held that such inconsistent treatment without distinguishing facts was unsustainable.
The ITAT dismissed the appeal after a rectification order under Section 154 granted the deduction under Section 80P and corrected the assessed income. The dispute no longer survived for adjudication.
The ITAT held that deduction under Section 80P could not be disallowed through a unilateral adjustment under Section 143(1) without providing notice and an opportunity of hearing. The appeals were allowed.
The Tribunal ruled that surplus funds parked in banks by a co-operative credit society retain the character of business income when linked to member credit activities. Deduction under Section 80P(2)(a)(i) was therefore allowed.
The Tribunal set aside the matter to the Assessing Officer for fresh adjudication of the co-operative housing society’s deduction claim under Section 80P(2)(d). The ruling emphasized that the claim required proper factual verification instead of outright rejection.
The ITAT Ahmedabad held that co-operative banks qualify as co-operative societies for purposes of Section 80P(2)(d). The Tribunal allowed deduction on interest income earned from deposits with co-operative banks following Gujarat High Court rulings.
Tribunal held that deduction for bad debts is allowable in the year in which the debts are actually written off in the books of account. It rejected the Revenue’s view that NPAs classified earlier must necessarily be written off in those earlier years.
