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Section 54 exemption not Allowable if Builder not Started Construction
Case Law Details
- Case Name
- Sh. Vijay Sharma Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi)
- Appeal Number
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- Date of Judgement/Order
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- Related Assessment Year
- 2015-16
- Courts
- All ITAT, ITAT Delhi
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Sh. Vijay Sharma Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi)
Objective of Section 54 is that the capital gains to be reinvested in another residential house. The provision emphasizes the investment of amount in new property within the timelines as per Section 54, but not completion of the property so as to be occupied or become habitable even. There may be many intervening factors which make it unreasonable and against the rules of prudence to expect the investor to also have completed the construction in three years. But then the law requires the gain to be statutorily invested.
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