Supreme Court of India

Visvesvaraya Technological University v. Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax

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Reported as [2016] 4 S.C.R. 362
Bench Ranjan Gogoi and Prafulla C. Pant JJ.
Decided 22 April 2016

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we do not find the present to be a fit case for interference.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961 -- s.10(23C)(iiiab) - Exemption under - Entitlement to the assessee-University - Held: The entitlement for the exemption is subject to two conditions (i) The University is solely for the purpose of education without profit motive, and (ii) it must be wholly or substantially financed by the Government - In the present case, the first condition is fulfilled by the University, but not the second - Therefore, the assessee-University is not entitled to exemption from payment of tax - Visweswaraiah Technological University Act, 1994 - s.23. Government Grants - Fees collected

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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