At many places in India while purchasing any immovable property it is seen that an agreement to sell is entered and pursuant to which a sale deed is entered between the parties thereby handing over the title of the property. However the time limit between these two agreements can be of a considerable time. Due […]
Provision of the Act were written in a progressive manner which allows the non-residents to take away the rightfully earned money without any tax deduction provided that they make an application to the Assessing Officer u/s 197 of the Act in the prescribed form (i.e. Form 13).
Generally, the flat buyers purchase the flats under a letter of allotment and subsequently enter into an agreement for sale after some time. Sometimes the time difference between the letter of allotment and date of agreement is more than one year or it may be in two different financial years. When such flat is sold the issue arises is what should be the date of acquistion i.e. the date of letter of allotment or date of agreement?