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Can donation of money to a trust by a company be treated as CSR expenditure of the company?

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Can donation of money to a trust by a company be treated as CSR expenditure of the company?
posted Aug 4, 2017 by Prajwal C.m.

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The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has vide General Circular No. 21/2014 dated June 18, 2014 has clarified that Contribution to Corpus of a Trust/ Society/ Section 8 companies etc. will qualify as CSR expenditure as long as
(a) the Trust/ Society/ Section 8 company etc. is created exclusively for undertaking CSR activities or
(b) where the corpus is created exclusively for a purpose directly relatable to a subject covered in Schedule VII of the Act

answer Aug 8, 2017 by Adarsh
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