Deputy Director Of Income Tax vs Shanti Devi Progressive Education ... on 10 February, 2011
30. There is also a second aspect to the present
case arising from the principles of consistency. It is not in
dispute that the Society was duly registered under
Section 12A of the said Act on the basis of its
Memorandum of Association. There has been no change
in the Memorandum of Association. The Society
continues to run the schools which is the object with
which the Society was set up. The exemption under
Section 10(22) of the IT Act has been available to the
respondent/assessee for a number of years prior to the
assessment years in question and even for the
subsequent years as stated by learned counsel for the
assessee. It is in these circumstances that the legal
position set out on the principle of consistency would
come into play as observed in Commissioner of Income
Tax v. Lagan Kala Upvan‟s case (supra) and Director of
Income Tax v. Lovely Bal Shiksha Parishad‟s case (supra).