Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces the dividend-based taxation of buy-backs with capital gains taxation for ordinary shareholders, ...
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Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 54 exemption must be examined separately for each residential house sold. Aggregating gains from multiple t...
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The issue under consideration is whether in case of real estate, tax liability will be arise when land was sold or when same was contributed for development under JDA?
Mumbai ITAT Ruling: Whether reduction in share capital amounts to a transfer and thereby gives rise to capital gains, if consideration is paid for such reduction?
Earlier Finance Act, 2013 introduced tax on the distributed income by the company on the buyback of the Unlisted Shares vide section 115QA under chapter XVII-DA. The Bare Act language of the section 115QA mentioned below for the reference. 115QA. Tax on distributed income to shareholders. “(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of […]
When a retiring partner took only money towards the value of his share on retirement and when there was no distribution of capital asset/ assets going to the partners, there was no transfer of capital asset and consequently no profits or gains was chargeable u/s. 45 (4).
Neha Chowdhary Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) Bogus capital gains from penny stocks- It emerges that from a perusal of these case files that although the assessee has produced her documentary evidence before the lower authorities about the impugned sums to be in the nature of income derived from the sales of shares, the fact remains […]
Since assessee did not receive any sum over and above the value of its investments from partnership firm on revaluation of assets, therefore, there could not be any levy of capital gains or any levy in the nature of income upon retirement of assessee from firm within the meaning of Section 2(24) in the hands of assessee.
Rationalization of provisions of section 55 of the Act to compute cost of acquisition The existing provisions of section 55 of the Act provide that for computation of capital gains, an assessee shall be allowed deduction for cost of acquisition of the asset and also cost of improvement, if any. However, for computing capital gains […]
Rationalisation of the provisions of section 49 and clause (42A) of section 2 of the Act in respect of segregated portfolios Section 49 of the Act provides for cost of acquisition for the capital asset which became the property of the assessee under certain situations. Further, clause (42A) of section 2 of the Act provides […]
CIT Vs Kishan House Builders Association (Karnataka High Court) The issue under consideration is whether the sale of land which is held as investment is considered as capital gains or business income? High Court states that, from perusal of the entries it is evident that the assessee has not conducted any other activity other than […]
Whatever rights the assessee acquired in the said plot started from 1997, during which year the substantial payment for purchase consideration was also made. The said consideration was recognized in the later registered document, which established the case of assessee of having acquired the rights way back in 1997. Accordingly, the gains arising on transfer of development rights in the hands of assessee would be assessed as ‘long-term capital gains’.
