Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces the dividend-based taxation of buy-backs with capital gains taxation for ordinary shareholders, ...
Income Tax : Explore the latest exemptions, deductions and allowances available under the Income-tax Act for AY 2026-27. The guide covers salar...
Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 54 exemption must be examined separately for each residential house sold. Aggregating gains from multiple t...
Income Tax : The document provides a detailed summary of the special tax provisions applicable to different securities and classes of taxpayers...
Income Tax : Learn the exemptions available under Sections 54 to 54GB of the Income-tax Act, including eligible investments, timelines, exempti...
Income Tax : India and France have signed a protocol granting full taxing rights on capital gains from share sales to the country of company re...
Income Tax : Govt rationalizes long-term capital gains tax, reducing rates to 12.5% and simplifying holding periods. Relief provided for pre-Ju...
Income Tax : Finance Bill 2024 amends Section 55 to include fair market value for unlisted shares in IPOs. Changes apply retroactively from Apr...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2024 proposes a streamlined and rationalized taxation system for capital gains, with changes including reduced ho...
Income Tax : From April 1, 2025, Section 47 will exclude transfers of capital assets under gifts or wills from capital gains tax, with specific...
Income Tax : ITAT held ₹33 crore settled rights over the entire land, allowing full indexed acquisition cost and rejecting proportionate rest...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that Section 54 exemption must be examined separately for each residential house sold. The benefit cannot be restric...
Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 54F deduction cannot be denied where capital gains are invested in a residential house within the prescribe...
Income Tax : ITAT held that agricultural land within the prescribed municipal distance is a capital asset and restricted the on-money addition ...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that a penalty under Section 271AAB cannot survive where the show cause notice fails to specify the exact statutory ...
Income Tax : The government has authorised all non-rural branches of 19 banks to operate Capital Gains Account Scheme accounts, enhancing taxpa...
Income Tax : The amendment introduces electronic payment modes for capital gains deposits and clarifies the effective date of deposit. It enhan...
Income Tax : Ministry of Finance notifies IREDA bonds issued post-July 9, 2025, as long-term specified assets under Section 54EC for income tax...
Income Tax : Ministry of Finance announces amendment to Section 48 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, introducing a new cost inflation index effectiv...
Income Tax : The Ministry of Finance, through the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), issued Notification No. 44/2024-Income-Tax on May 24, 2...
Sanjaykumar Footermal Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) In the instant case it is crystal clear that by virtue of agreement for sale dt. 24-04-2008, and making a part payment, the assessee has acquired irrevocable tight, title and interest including possession in the house property in the form of Godown. The registration of the property which […]
Jayashree Kothari Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderabad) Sec. 50C(2) enables the Assessing Officer to make a reference to the Valuation Officer. Whenever a reference is made by the AO to the Valuation Officer, such reference has to be construed as a reference made under sec. 16A(1) of the Wealth-tax Act. We have also carefully gone through […]
Girdhari Lal Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The test for determining whether the impugned land is agriculture bear mainly on the nature or character of the land, and not merely on the actual user or non-user at a particular point of time. If the land is not actually appropriated for agricultural purposes, the minimal requirement is […]
DCIT Vs Deepak Shashi Bhusan Roy (ITAT Mumbai) The coordinate bench of Tribunal in Anita D. Kanjani (supra) held that in order to determine the nature of asset income of section 2(42A), holding period is to be computed from date of issue of allotment letter and not from the date when agreement to sell was […]
Dr. Muthian Sivathanu, Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) Conclusion: Gains arising from sale of the shares allotted in the ESOP (Employees Stock Option Plan) scheme when the assessee was non-resident, not to be assessed as perquisites instead of assessed as capital gain as the stock viz., the asset was already vested on the assessee during the […]
As stock market investors, we are beneficiaries to various corporate actions like bonus shares, rights shares and stock splits. These corporate actions are accompanied by stock price movements in short and long run affecting capital gains whenever we sell shares. As there is an effect on capital gains, tax implication also changes if we sell shares prior […]
By virtue of JDA, assessee was parting with a portion of its land and in consideration thereof, was receiving built-up area on the land retained by it which was a transfer within the meaning of section 2(47)(v) however, AO was directed to re-compute the capital gain again by considering only elements which were necessary for the construction of the building as the cost of construction, and not the entire expenditure of the builder, including the compensation agreed to be paid to K and also the finance charges etc., which were not relevant for computing the cost of the construction.
Vidyasagar M.P. Sah Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In this case Though activity of purchase and sale of shares was not the main occupation of assessee, however, high volume of trade in shares, and very short holding period showed that assessee was using his knowledge, skill and resources to deal in shares, and gains arising on […]
CIT Vs Harbour View (Kerala High Court) We find that the Tribunal went wrong in holding that the possession was not handed over in pursuance of the agreement for sale as contemplated under section 53A of the TP Act. Once the sale agreement comes under the provisions of section 53A of the TP Act, handing […]
Dharmakumar C. Kapadia Vs ACIT (Bombay High Court) (i) In terms of Section 48 of the Act, the income taxable under the head ‘capital gains’ is to be computed after deducting from the full value of consideration received on sale of capital asset, the cost of acquisition and improvement of the asset. Section 49 of […]
