{"id":62073,"date":"2026-07-13T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/karunya-educational-research-trust-v-dcit-2025-237-ttj-163-176-taxmann-com-404-chennaitrib\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:39:40","slug":"karunya-educational-research-trust-v-dcit-2025-237-ttj-163-176-taxmann-com-404-chennaitrib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/karunya-educational-research-trust-v-dcit-2025-237-ttj-163-176-taxmann-com-404-chennaitrib\/","title":{"rendered":"Karunya Educational &#038; Research Trust v. DCIT (2025) 237 TTJ 163 \/ 176 taxmann.com 404 (Chennai)(Trib)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Held that all software and online activities of the assessee-trust and JC have been functional since 2017 till the date of search and the assessee is highly successful and has grown multifold in the last two decade which has possible only by regular development updatation, adaptation to new technology and maintenance of software, it has to be accepted that the software team of the software developer TFMSS has been genuinely providing maintenance services on regular basis and therefore, the software development charges paid for such services could not be disallowed, on the ground that the trust funds were intentionally diverted to a related foreign entity which was controlled by one of the assessee\u2019s former employees. Tribunal also held that the AO\u00a0 mechanically disallowed the business consultancy charges paid by the assessee trust along with software charges without realising that the business consultancy charges were erroneously clubbed with the software charges. Disallowance was deleted.\u00a0 (AY. 2017-18 to 2021-22)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. 153A: Assessment-Search-Undisclosed income-The assessee received software services, and the consideration paid for such services cannot be disallowed.  [S. 37] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income-tax-act"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-g9b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62074,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62073\/revisions\/62074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}