Charitable Trust , all members retire , Incoming members paying to outgoing members by way of gift , tax implication of such transaction? . Whether Society will loose the exemption?

In case of a charitable society running educational institution, if all the members of the society, retire and new members are introduced the executive body is also replaced by the new members. However, this being a commercial deal, the incoming members desire to pay the outgoing members say by way of gift through account payee cheques. In such a situation can incoming members pay to the outgoing members directly. The outgoing members are in the tax bracket of 30% plus surcharge, then what will be the implication of such transaction, and whether society will lose its character of being a…

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