Shree Sidhivinayak Nagari Sahakari ... vs Dcit Panvel Cir Panvel, Panvel on 28 February, 2019
"42.5 In view of this, the provisions of the Sec.194A(3)(v) of the Income Tax
Act have been amended so as to expressly provide that the exemption
provided from deduction of tax from payment of interest to members by a co-
operative society under Section 194A(3)(v) of the Income-tax Act shall not
apply to the payment of interest on time deposits by the co-operative banks to
its members. As this amendment is effective from the prospective date of 1st
June, 2015, the co-operative bank shall be required to deduct tax from the
payment of interest on time deposits of its members, on or after the 1st June,
2015. Hence, a cooperative bank was not required to deduct tax from the
payment of interest on time deposits of its members paid or credited before 1st
June, 2015." (Emphasis supplied)
On a perusal of the aforesaid extract of the CBDT Circular No. 19/2015,
dated 27.11.2015, it can safely or rather inescapably be gathered that a co-
operative bank was not required to deduct tax at source on the interest that
was paid or credited before 1st June, 2015 on the time deposits of its
members. In fact, we find that the aforesaid CBDT Circular No. 19/2015
had been deliberated upon by the Hon‟ble High Court of Karnataka in
certain cases viz. (i) CIT Vs. Vs. Bijapur District Central (2018) 93
taxmann.com 211 (Kar); (ii) CIT Vs. Basaveshwara Shahakari Bank (2016)
74 taxmann.com 21 (Kar); and (iii) CIT, Belgaum Vs. Shri Siddeshwar Co-
operative Bank Ltd. (2016) 71 taxmann.com 126 (Kar).