80g

Benefits of section 80g

Registration under section 80g of income tax act provides benefit to ngos. If an ngo has 80g certificate with it, the donor gets financial benefit in his/her taxable amount of income. If an non governmental organization gets itself registered under section 80g, then the person or the organization making a donation to the ngo will get a deduction of 50% from his/its taxable income. By availing 80g certificate, non government organizations can attract more donors for donating funds in their accounts. Even the government departments i.e. the central ministries, the state ministries pay taxes. If the state level ngos or national level ngos apply for government funding, the government departments are going to prefer those ngos which are having 12a and 80g license. By doing so, they will also get tax rebate from their taxes. Nowadays, income tax department has made it mandatory to file certain forms like form bd on the portal if the ngos issue donation receipts to donors and the donors apply for tax exemption later on. This has been done in order to stop fraudulent activities. Further, after covid19, there has been a drastic change in the things. While filing the form, the ngos have to mention the permanent account number of the organization, financial year during which the donation was accepted by the ngo, name of the person i.e. donor, donation amount, the donor's pan number or aadhaar card number, address of donor, mode of donation like cash, cheque, demand draft etc. When the non government organization files the form 10bd, it can download form 10be after 24 hours. This form 10be is donation certificate which supports the donor's claim of deduction under section 80g. When the donor will file his/her itr, he or she can claim section 80g deduction using this certificate. The income tax department can cross check the donor's claim against the data given by the ngo in the form 10bd.

Registration under section 80g

If an ngo gets itself registered under 80g, then the person or the organization making a donation to the trust or society of section 8 company or any other organization registered under any ngo act will get a deduction of 50% from his/her taxable income. The charitable organization has to apply in Form No. 10G as per annexure-29 to the commissioner of income tax for such registration. Normally, this approval is granted for 2-3 years.
The finance act, 2009, has deleted the five year restriction under provision to sub section (5) clause (vi). In other words, registration certificates issued after 1st October, 2009 can be considered as one time registration unless any specific restriction is provided in the certification itself.

Documents required for registration

The application form should be sent to the commissioner of income tax along with the following documents :

i) Copy of registered bye-laws of the organization along with its board member details.
ii) Details of activities since its inception or last three years whichever is less
iii) Copies of audited accounts of the institution/charitable organization since its inception or last 3 years whichever is less.

Conditions for registration under section 80g

For approval under section 80g, the following conditions are to be fulfilled :

i) The ngo should not have any income which is not exempted such as business income. If the ngo has business income, then it should maintain separate books of accounts and should not divert donations received for the purpose of such business.
ii) The bye-laws or objectives of the non governmental organization should not contain any provision for spending the income or assets of the ngo for purposes other than charitable.
iii) The ngo is not working for the benefits of particular religious community or caste.
iv) The ngo maintains regular accounts of its receipts and expenditures.
v) The ngo is properly registered under Indian Trust Act, 1882 or Societies Registration Act 1860 or under any law corresponding to that act or is registered under section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013.

vi) The ngo should have filed itrs and should maintain proper bills and photographs of the social activities.

Benefits of registration of 80g

There is ceiling limit upto which the benefit is allowable to the donor. If the amount of deduction to a charitable organisation or trust is more than 10% of the gross total income computed under the act (as reduced by income on which income-tax is not payable under any provision of this Act and by any amount in respect of which the assessee is entitled to a deduction under any other provision of this chapter), then the amount in excess of 10% of gross total income shall not qualify for deduction under section 80g.
In other words, while computing the total income of an assessee and for arriving at the deductible amount under section 80g, first the aggregate of the sums donated has to be found out. Then 50 percent of such donations has to be found out and it should be limited to 10 percent of the gross total income. If such amount is more than 10 per cent of the gross total income, the excess will have to be ignored.
The persons or organisation who donate under section 80g deduction gets a deduction of 50% from their taxable income. Here at times a confusion creeps in, that the tax advantage under section 80g of income tax act is 50%, but actually it is not so. 50% of the donation made is allowed to be deducted from the taxable income and consequently tax is calculated.

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Csr registration

Any non government organization registered under any act should apply for csr1 certificate in order to apply for csr funding. Csr registration is done through registrar of companies. The authorized person should have digital signature(dsc) and it should be registered on Ministry of Corporate Affairs' portal. Generally, within one or two days time period, csr registration certificate can be generated provided there is no mismatch in pan card names and aadhaar card names of the board members of the organization. Further, date of birth of all the govening body members as mentioned in pan card copies and aadhaar card copies shall exactly match. A corporate donor will look for two things while donating to an ngo. First, the ngo should have csr1 certificate and second, the organization should have active 12a and 80g registration number.