TAMILNADU POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD,CHENNAI vs. DCIT (EXEMPTIONS), CHENNAI

आदेश / O R D E R

PER GEORGE MATHAN, JUDICIAL MEMBER

Shri R.Vijayaraghavan represented on behalf of the Assessee, 2. and Shri AR.V.Sreenivasan represented on behalf of the Revenue.

Act, 1974. It was a submission that the assessee is a Board of the State Government, which collects fees from the various industrial units coming under the provisions of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. The assessee also receives grants from the Central Pollution Control Board for application towards specific purpose as set out by the Board. The whole income of assessee is applied towards the object of the Board for public utility purposes and the surplus amounts are held in the form of bank deposit for future application towards the objects of the Board. It was submitted that till 01.04.2003, the income of assessee was totally exempt u/s.10(20) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (in short ‘the Act’). The assessee had made an application dated 23.08.2004 for grant of exemption u/s.10(23)(iv) of the act in Form 56 along with copies of the audited accounts for the preceding last three years. It was a submission that the assessee was to get the registration, but no notification u/s.10(23)(iv) of the act was to 742/Chny/2018 :- 3 -: issued for granting exemption under the Act. Consequently, the assessment order pertaining to relevant assessment years was passed by issue of notice u/s.147 of the Act and the receipt of the assessee was treated as taxable. The assessee had made an application to the CBDT, which came to be disposed off on 10.03.2017 and subsequently on 27.12.2018, the assessee had filed a Writ Petition (W.P) No.6281 of 2019 before the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court and the same was pending for disposal. It was a submission that the issue of grant of exemption by issuing of necessary notification granting the assessee exemption u/s.10(23)(iv) of the act was pending before the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court. It was a prayer that the assessee had no objection, if the issues in the appeals of the assessee may be restored to the file of Assessing Officer for re-adjudication after the decision of the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court in W.P No.6281 of 2019.

act, is still pending before the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court, and as it is noticed that the decision of the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court in W.P referred to supra filed by the assessee, would have direct bearing in the outcome of the grant of exemption in the assessee’s case, in the interest of natural justice, the issues in the appeals of the assessee are restored to the file of Assessing Officer for re-adjudication after considering the directions issued by the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court in the W.P filed by the assessee

Order pronounced in the open court after conclusion of hearing on 11th November, 2019, at Chennai.