The concept of Significant Economic Presence (‘SEP’) was introduced in the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) from April 1, 2018 i.e. A.Y. 2019-20 to tax the income of the non-resident arising from transactions relating to any goods, services or property in India, including allowing download of data or software or carrying on business activities in […]
Builders generally as a matter of practice are not interested in leasing of such property (ies) hence even the department in most of the cases, did not invoke provisions of section 23 of Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) to tax the notional income deemed to accrue on completed vacant property(ies) held as stock-in-trade by the builders.
