Supreme Court of India

Broach Distt. Co-operative Cotton Sales Ginning & Pressing Society Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Ahmedabad.

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Reported as [1989] 2 S.C.R. 720
Bench R.S. Pathak J.
Decided 26 April 1989

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What the Court ordered

In the result the appeals are allowed and the question referred by the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal to the High Court must be answered in the affirmative, in favour of the assessee and against the Revenue.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961: Section 81(i)(c)-Assessee-Co-opera­ tive Society-Income from ginning and pressing-Whether exempt from tax. The assessee, a co-operative _society, was rendering the service of ginning and pressing raw cotton received from its members and marketing the finished product on their behalf. The assessee charged the members a certain amount6y way of ginning and pressing charges ana further charged commission for the sale of the finished product. For the assessment years 1961-62 to 1963-64, the assessee claimed that the receipts from the ginning and pressing activities were

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