CBDT issues Circular Providing Clarity on Filing Details of Major Contributors to Trusts and Institutions [Read Notification]

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) vide circular no. 17/2023 issued on 9th October 2023 has provided the clarity on filing details of significant contributors to trusts and institutions under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961. The board has addressed the issues and difficulties that arose in filing the same.

The Circular states that:

“Audit report in the case of a fund or trust or institution or any university or other educational institution or any hospital or other medical institution, under clause (b) of the tenth proviso to clause (23C) of section 10, or sub-clause (ii) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 12A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act), as the case may be, is required to be furnished in Form No. 10B / Form No. 10BB.

Representations have been received regarding difficulties in filling details of persons who have made a ‘substantial contribution to the trust or institution’, that is to say, any person whose total contribution up to the end of the relevant previous year exceeds fifty thousand rupees (as referred to in section of the Act). The matter has been examined with reference to the issue raised in paragraph 2 and it is hereby stated that for the purposes of providing details in (i) Form No. 10B in the Annexure, in row 41; and (ii) Form No. IOBB in the Annexure, in row 28, for the assessment year 2023-24:

1.  the aforesaid details (that is, of persons making substantial contribution) may be given with respect to those persons whose total contribution during the previous year exceeds fifty thousand rupees;
2. details of relatives of such person, as referred to in (a) above may be provided, if available.
3. details of concerns in which such person, as referred to in (a) above, has substantial interest may be provided, if available.”

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