Supreme Court of India

Income Tax Officer, Mumbai v. Venkatesh Premises Cooperative Society Ltd.

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Bench R. F. Nariman and Navin Sinha JJ.
Decided 12 March 2018

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What the Court ordered

In the result, all appeals preferred by the Revenue are dismissed.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961: Exemption from income tax – Of certain receipts by Co- operative Societies from its members i.e. non-occupancy charges, transfer charges, common amenity fund charges etc., on the basis of doctrine of mutuality – Stand by Revenue that such receipts are in the nature of business income, generating profits and surplus, having an element of commerciality and therefore exigible to tax – Held: Doctrine of mutuality is premised on the theory that a person cannot make a profit from himself – The essence of the principle lies in the commonality of the contributors and the…

Where later benches applied it

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