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Income-tax laws in India have provisions for various profit linked deductions to encourage investments in certain industries under Chapter VI-A under the heading ‘C. – Deductions in respect of certain incomes’.
These deductions are available under Sections 80H to 80RRB with respect to profits and gains of specific industries such as hotel business, small-scale industrial undertaking, housing projects, export business, and infrastructure development.
One of the deductions available under this chapter is deductions with respect to the income of co-operative societies; the provisions of which have been dealt with under Section 80P.
Under this section, a certain specified income of a co-operative society engaged in specific activities is considered as a deduction if such income is included in the gross total income of the society.
A co-operative society is not defined specifically for the purpose of Section 80P. However, Section 2(19) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, defines a co-operative society to be an entity registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912 or under any other law governing the registration of co-operative societies in any state.
| Activities covered | Quantum of deduction |
|---|---|
| Co-operative society engaged in: | 100% of profits and gains attributable to these activities |
| The business of banking or providing credit facilities to its members | |
| Cottage industry | |
| Marketing of agricultural produce grown by its members | |
| Purchase of agricultural implements, seeds, livestock or other articles intended for agriculture for the purpose of supplying them to its members | |
| Processing of agricultural produce of its members without the aid of power | |
| Collective disposal of the labor of its members, or fishing, or any allied activities (catching, curing, processing, preserving, storing, marketing of fish etc.) However, rules and by-laws of these co-operative societies must restrict voting rights to: 1. Members, who are individuals who contribute with their labor 2. Is a co-operative society which provides financial assistance to the society or 3. Is a State Government. |
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| A co-operative society which is primarily engaged in supplying milk, oilseeds, fruits or vegetables raised or grown by its members to: 1. A federal co-operative society, a society engaged in the business of supplying milk, oilseeds, fruits, or vegetables, as the case may be 2. The Government or Local authority 3. Either a government company as per the company law or a corporation established by or under the Central, State or Provincial Act, which is engaged in supplying milk, oilseeds, fruits or vegetables, as the case may be, to the public | 100% of profits and gains of such business |
| A co-operative society engaged in any other activities | 1. For consumer co-operative society* – Upto Rs 1 lakh 2. Others – Upto Rs 50,000 |
| A co-operative society earning: 1. Interest or dividend from its investment with any other co-operative society or 2. Income from letting of godowns or warehouses for storage, processing or facilitating the marketing of commodities | 100% of such income |
| Interest on securities or income from the house property of a co-operative society other than a Housing society or 1. Urban consumers’ society** or 2. Society carrying on a transport business or 3. Society engaged in manufacturing operations with the aid of power whose gross total income is not more than Rs 25,000 | 100% of such income |
* ‘Consumers’ co-operative society’ means a society for the benefit of its members **
‘Urban consumers’ co-operative society’ means a society for the benefit of the consumers within the limits of a municipal corporation, municipality, municipal committee, notified area committee, town area or cantonment.
The Finance Act, 2006 introduced specific exclusions to the applicability of the benefit of deduction under Section 80P.
Section 80P is made not applicable to any co-operative bank (including Regional Rural Banks) other than a primary agricultural credit society (as defined in the Banking Regulation Act) or a primary co-operative agricultural and rural development bank (a society having its area of operation confined to a taluk and the principal object of which is to provide long-term credit for agricultural and rural development activities).
Benefit of deduction is withdrawn with an intention to treat co-operative banks on par with commercial banks who do not enjoy any such tax benefit.
If a co-operative society is also eligible for profit-linked deduction under Section 80HH, 80HHA, 80HHB, 80HHC, 80HHD, 80-I, 80-IA, 80J, the deduction allowed under Section 80P is from the gross total income after reducing the deductions under these sections.
