19 January 2015
Only tution fees / School fees is eligible for deduction u/s 80C. Term fees, exam fees and book fees are not eligible for deduction u/s 80C.
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19 January 2015
Tuition fee includes all fees except the amount representing payment in the nature of development fees or donation or capitation fees or payment of similar nature. So the nature should be looked into.
20 January 2015
Section 80C discourages, for purposes of deduction ,the payment of any development fees or donation or payment of similar nature. In view of that, all the expenses mentioned in the query is rightly allowable u/s 80C.
21 January 2015
I am also of the opinion that only tution fees is allowed as deduction u/s 80C. The word ueed is tution fees and not education fees. If we go by the definition and include everything in tution fees, except development fees and donation or payment of similar nature then there are so many fees like lab fees, computer fees, book fee (which is cost of book) etc. But the section uses the word tution fees. And therefore in my view only tution fees is eligible for deduction u/s 80C.
I have the college fee receipt and it has columns like Tuition fee , Stationery Fee , Lab fee , exam fee and development fee. If you see the 80c provision for this , then only tuition fee is eligible.
One more thing is that in any of the college receipt U will find the tuition fee as minimum amount among other items as mentioned above.
So only tuition fee amount should reflect under 80c in any return.
22 January 2015
S. 80C(2)(xvii)states that sum paid by the assessee as Tuition Fees is deductible. . Tuition fees has not been defined in the Act. . If we take the interpretation as- " only tuition fee is deductible" then the phrase "Tuition Fee" only was sufficient in the Act. . However, in the Act the phrase used is "TUITION FEES" which is the plural of the phrase "TUITION FEE". . It shows that the intention of the legislation has remained to allow other fees also. . This has further been clarified by providing "exclusion" in the parentheses ( ), meaning thereby only development fees or donations or payment of similar nature as to development fees or donations are not allowable. Other payments made to an educational institution in connection with the full time education are thus allowable. .
22 January 2015
Moreover specifically college reciept fees are not excluded like development fees or donation fees ,so applying the concept of negative analogy it can be concluded that tuition fees includes above fees also as asked by jayarathinam.
22 January 2015
Section mentioned as Tuition fees excluding the donation and development and expenses n same nature). General meaning of Tuition is teaching & instructing. so my view also Tuition fees only allowed.
23 January 2015
Thank you Warrier Sir, Paras Sir and Ramesh Ji for sharing your views on my request on this debatable topic.
In a lighter sense I think IT Department will be very generous is they allow all fees except for in the nature of development fees and donation.
If we start taking exemption of all fees like exam fees, book fees, term fees, uniform fees, lab fees, Computer fees and many more then i think only tution fees will be good enough to take the entire 1.50 Lacs deduction u/s 80C.
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