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No stone is left unhurt when the law makers are Indians. In the sense that no kind of income goes untaxed under the Indian Income Tax law. The Income Tax Act, 1961 is a freakish machine with 5 eyes, no income goes unnoticed from these eyes.
First of all it is to be mentioned that the rate of tax at what rate long term capital gains is to be charged, the assessee has declared long term capital gain and charged tax on the same at 20% as is evident from the acknowledgment of return filed before us.
The introduction of the Real Estate Regulation Bill, which foretells the government’s desire to promote the real estate sector, will abort the torment of Indian real estate. Globally REIT is well developed phenomena, serving dual purpose of providing investor with alternative investment avenue. Initially it was introduced in the US in the 1960s.
it is proposed to amend the aforesaid clause (42A) of section 2 so as to provide that an unlisted security and a unit of a mutual fund (other than an equity oriented mutual fund) shall be a short-term capital asset if it is held for not more than thirty-six months.
The issue before us is whether the transfer of the shares of Nestle India Ltd and Hindustan Lever Ltd held by the members of Bilakhia family as investment by them to the assessee-company as per family arrangement dated 16-02-2001 claimed to have been transferred without
a. The PMS Agreement in this case was a mere agreement of agency and cannot be used to infer any intention to make profit. b. The intention of an assessee must be inferred holistically, from the conduct of the assessee, the circumstances of the transactions, and not just from the seeming motive at the time of depositing the money
Confused about taxation of any income arising in respect of shares, be it capital gains on sale of such shares or dividends received? There is general perception that any income received in respect of shares is exempt from tax, be it capital gains or dividends.
Hon’ble Delhi HC has held in the case of ‘Bharti Gupta Ramola Vs. CIT’ that For computing holding period of asset both date on which asset is acquired & date on which said asset is sold or transferred are not to be excluded.
The short dispute arising for consideration in this case relates to the year of assessability of capital gains arising on the property, which was subject matter of a development agreement, i.e. whether it is assessable in the year in which the development agreement was entered
It is observed that the claim of the assessee for long term capital loss arising from sale of shares of was disallowed by the A.O. by treating the relevant transactions of purchase and sale of shares as a colourable device adopted by the assessee with an ultra motive to claim the long term capital loss.
