Exempt Income of research association [Section 10(21)] 

Any income of a research association, approved under section 35(1)(ii)/(iii) is exempt from tax, if following conditions as specified in section 10(21) are satisfied: 

1) Income should be applied or accumulated wholly and exclusively for the objects for it established. 

2) Funds should not be invested or deposited for any period during the previous year otherwise than in any one or more of the forms/modes specified in section 11(5). However, this condition is not applicable in respect of the following:- 

(i) any assets held by the research association where such assets form part of the corpus of the fund of the association as on the 1st day of June, 1973; 

(ii) Debentures of a company acquired by the research association before the 1st day of March, 1983; 

(iii) any accretion to the shares, forming part of the corpus of the fund mentioned in sub-clause (i), by way of bonus shares allotted to the research association; 

(iv) voluntary contributions received and maintained in the form of jewellery, furniture or any other article as the Board may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, 

Note: 

1. Exemption shall not be denied in relation to voluntary contribution [other than voluntary contribution in cash or voluntary contribution of the nature referred to in (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) supra]subject to the condition that such voluntary contribution is not held by the research association otherwise than in any one or more of the forms or modes specified in sub- section (5) of section 11, after the expiry of one year from the end of the previous year in which such asset is acquired. 

2. Exemption is not available in relation to any income of the research association, being profits and gains of business, unless the business is incidental to the attainment of its objectives and separate books of account are maintained by it in respect of such business 

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