{"id":51662,"date":"2009-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-ms-punjab-energy-development-on-3-august-2009"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:45:00","slug":"commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-ms-punjab-energy-development-on-3-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-ms-punjab-energy-development-on-3-august-2009","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Income Tax vs M\/S Punjab Energy Development … on 3 August, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n
Commissioner Of Income Tax vs M\/S Punjab Energy Development … on 3 August, 2009<\/div>\n
     IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n\n                         CHANDIGARH.\n\n\n                                     I.T.A. No.666 of 2008 (O&M)\n                                       Date of decision: 31.7.2009\n\nCommissioner of Income Tax, Chandigarh-II.\n                                                    -----Appellant.\n                               Vs.\nM\/s Punjab Energy Development Agency.\n                                                  -----Respondent\n\n\nCORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL\n            HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE DAYA CHAUDHARY\n\n\nPresent:-   Ms. Urvashi Dhugga, Advocate\n            for the appellant.\n\n                  ---\n\nADARSH KUMAR GOEL, J.\n<\/pre>\n
1.          Delay in refiling is condoned. Heard on merits.<\/p>\n
2.          Revenue has preferred this appeal under Section 260-<\/p>\n
A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (for short, “the Act”), proposing to<\/p>\n
raise three questions of law, but learned counsel for the revenue<\/p>\n
presses only question No.3, which is as under:-<\/p>\n
            “3.   Whether on the facts and circumstances of the
\n            case and in law, the Hon’ble ITAT was correct in
\n            sending back the issue of taxability of interest income
\n            back to the file of the Assessing Officer without
\n            appreciating the fact that the assessee has failed to
\n I.T.A. No.666 of 2008                                    2<\/span><\/p>\n
           prove that the interest was earned from a property
\n           held under a trust or a legal obligation?”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
 I.T.A. No.666 of 2008                                             3<\/span><\/p>\n
It is fairly stated that other questions relate to findings of fact and<\/p>\n
are, thus, not substantial questions of law.<\/p>\n
2.          The assessee is a public sector undertaking and<\/p>\n
received grants from Central and State Governments for its<\/p>\n
various projects.    On the grants of Governments received, it<\/p>\n
earned interest income. It claimed deduction on the said income<\/p>\n
under Section 11(1)(a) of the Act, which was not allowed by the<\/p>\n
Assessing Officer. However, the CIT(A) upheld the claim of the<\/p>\n
assessee.     The Tribunal remanded the matter to examine<\/p>\n
whether there was co-relation between schemes and the amounts<\/p>\n
spent.\n<\/p>\n
3.          Learned counsel for the revenue submits that the<\/p>\n
interest income was not derived from the property held under the<\/p>\n
Trust for charitable religious purposes.\n<\/p>\n
4.          Though learned counsel refers to judgments in<\/p>\n
Cambay Electric Supply Industrial Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner<\/p>\n
of Income Tax, Gujarat II<\/a> 113 ITR 84 (SC), Commissioner of<\/p>\n
Income Tax v. Sterling Foods<\/a> 237 ITR 579(SC), Hindustan<\/p>\n
Lever Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax<\/a> 239 ITR 297(SC),<\/p>\n
Commissioner of Income Tax v. Cement Distributors Limited<\/a><\/p>\n
208 ITR 355 (Del), Commissioner of Income-Tax v. Pandian<\/p>\n
Chemicals Ltd.<\/a> 233 ITR 497 (Madras), Nanji Topanbhai and<\/p>\n
Co. v. Asstt. Commissioner of Income Tax & others 243 ITR<\/p>\n
192 (Ker.) and Commissioner of Income Tax v. K.K. Doshi<\/p>\n
and Co.<\/a> 245 ITR 849 (Bom.), her main reliance is on judgment of
\n I.T.A. No.666 of 2008                                            4<\/span><\/p>\n
the Madras High Court in Pandian Chemicals Ltd. (supra),<\/p>\n
which dealt with the expression income “derived” from the interest<\/p>\n
for claiming benefit under Section 80 HH of the Act, which is<\/p>\n
permissible in respect of income derived from new undertaking. It<\/p>\n
was held that the interest income was not income derived from<\/p>\n
new undertaking.\n<\/p>\n
5.           We are unable to hold that interest income “derived<\/p>\n
from” amount of grants is not income “derived from” property held<\/p>\n
in Trust for charitable purposes within the scope of the said<\/p>\n
expression in Section 11(1)(a).     None of the judgments relied<\/p>\n
upon is in the contact of Section 11. Qualification for attracting<\/p>\n
Section 11(1)(a) is that income should be derived from property<\/p>\n
held in Trust for charitable purpose. The CIT(A) as well as the<\/p>\n
Tribunal held that interest income from grants was fully covered<\/p>\n
under Section 11(1)(a). In CIT v. Thanthi Trust (2001) 247 ITR<\/p>\n
785 (SC), it was held that income from incidental business was<\/p>\n
also covered under Section 11(1)(a).\n<\/p>\n
6.           Even if test of income directly arising from property of<\/p>\n
Trust is applied, interest directly accrues on funds of the Trust. In<\/p>\n
C.I.T. v. Pruthivi Trust (1980) 124 ITR 488 (Bom.), it was<\/p>\n
observed:-\n<\/p>\n
                   “In order to ascertain the scope and ambit of the
\n             expression “income derived from property held under
\n             trust” reference can be held to the decision of this
\n             Court in J.K. Trust v. CIT<\/a> [1955] 23 ITR 143. In this
\n             case, the High Court has held that in order to claim
\n I.T.A. No.666 of 2008                                             5<\/span><\/p>\n
           exemption it is not sufficient that the property is
\n           indirectly responsible for the income.          The income
\n           must directly and substantially arise from the property
\n           held under trust. For arriving at this conclusion this
\n           Court referred to the decision of their Lordships of the
\n           Privy Council in CIT       v. Kamakhya Narayan Singh<\/a>
\n           [1948] 16 ITR 325 at p. 328, where the definition of
\n           the expression has been given of the word “derived”.
\n           At page 151 (of 23 ITR) this Court pointed out:
\n           “Reference might also be usefully made to the
\n           definition of the expression ‘derived’ given by the Privy
\n           Council in Commissioner of Income-tax v. Kamakhya
\n           Narayan Singh [1948] 16 ITR 325. It is true that their
\n           Lordships were there considering the question of
\n           agricultural income, but the interpretation placed upon
\n           the expression ‘derived’ by their Lordships is not
\n           without       assistance   for   interpreting   the   same
\n           expression in section 4(3)(i). The expression used in
\n           this section is ‘any income derived from property held
\n           under trust’, and to put upon it the interpretation put
\n           by the Privy Council, the property must be the
\n           effective source from which the income arises. It is
\n           not sufficient that the property should be indirectly
\n           responsible for the income. The income must directly
\n           and substantially arise from the property held under
\n           trust…..”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Even on above test, interest income will fall under Section 11(1)<\/p>\n
(a).\n<\/p>\n
7.         The judgments relied upon relate to cases where<\/p>\n
benefit is permissible on account of special nature of the income<\/p>\n
and income derived from source other than the specified source
\n I.T.A. No.666 of 2008                                            6<\/span><\/p>\n
does not quality for exemption. In case of income of charitable<\/p>\n
institutions, the said consideration is not relevant. The scheme of<\/p>\n
Section 11 is not to include income derived from the property of<\/p>\n
the Trust in total income. This being the position, interest income<\/p>\n
from property of the Trust clearly falls under Section 11 of the Act.<\/p>\n
8.          Same will be position with regard to income from sale<\/p>\n
of solar cooker and other equipments developed by the Energy<\/p>\n
Development Agency.\n<\/p>\n
9.          We, thus, do not find that any substantial question of<\/p>\n
law arises for consideration.\n<\/p>\n
10.         The appeal is dismissed.<\/p>\n
\n\n                                        (ADARSH KUMAR GOEL)\n                                                JUDGE\n\n\nJuly 31, 2009                             ( DAYA CHAUDHARY )\nashwani                                          JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Punjab-Haryana High Court Commissioner Of Income Tax vs M\/S Punjab Energy Development … on 3 August, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. I.T.A. No.666 of 2008 (O&M) Date of decision: 31.7.2009 Commissioner of Income Tax, Chandigarh-II. —–Appellant. Vs. M\/s Punjab Energy Development Agency. —–Respondent CORAM:- HON’BLE MR. 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