Cooperative societies that are mandatorily audited under their respective Cooperative Acts can still file their income tax returns after the 31st July deadline to claim deductions under Section 80P(2)(a)(i). This applies even if their turnover is not subject to a separate tax audit under Section 44AB of the IT Act. In such cases, there's no requirement to upload an audit report to the IT portal.
14 September 2023
Cooperative society which are subject to audit as per Cooperative Act can submit return after 31/07/2023 to claim deduction u/s 80P(2)(a)(i) of the IT Act if Turnover is not subject to tax audit. Audit report of the cooperative Act cannot be uploaded for want of provision in IT portal.
15 September 2023
The accounts of co-operative society are required to be audited under state Co-operative Act mandatorily and therefore the due date for submission of the return of income shall be 31st October. If there is no tax audit u/s 44AB then there is no need to upload audit report .