Income Tax Act 2025: Section 340 for Tax Year 2025-26

Donations for renovating religious places can be deemed corpus if separately maintained, used as intended, properly invested & not donated.

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Deemed corpus donation

[As per the Income Tax Act, 2025 (this Act) w.e.f. 1st April, 2026.]

Where the property of a registered non-profit organisation includes any temple, mosque, gurdwara, church or other place notified under section 133(1)(b)(vii), any sum or sums received by such registered non-profit organisation as donation for the purpose of renovation or repair of such temple, mosque, gurdwara, church or other place, may, at its option, be deemed as forming part of the corpus under section 339, if it—

(a) maintains such corpus as separate identifiable;
(b) applies such corpus only for the purpose for which the contribution was made;
(c) invests or deposits such corpus in any of the modes permitted under section 350; and
(d) does not apply such corpus for making donation to any person.


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