Circular No. 145 – Income Tax Under section 10(6 )(viia), foreign technicians having specialised knowledge and experience in constructional or manufacturing operations or in mining or in the generation of electricity or any other form of power, or in agriculture, animal husbandry, dairy farming, deep sea fishing or ship building enjoy special concession in certain cases. One of the important conditions for availing of the tax concession is that the foreign technician should not have been a resident of India in any of the four financial years immediately preceding the financial year in which he arrives in India.
Circular No.144 – Income Tax Under the existing provisions in section 80T and section 115, long-term capital gains, i.e., capital gains arising from the transfer of a capital asset which is held for more than 60 months from the date of acquisition, are charged to tax on a concessional basis. In the case of taxpayers other than companies the concession is allowed by deducting a specific proportion of the long-term capital gains in computing the taxable income of the
