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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 : The ITAT ruled that the Assessing Officer wrongly adopted the stamp duty valuation despite contrary valuation material on record. ...
Income Tax : Delhi ITAT held that before the amendment effective from 01.04.2015, exemption under Section 54 could be claimed for investment in...
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Income Tax : Ministry of Finance notifies IREDA bonds issued post-July 9, 2025, as long-term specified assets under Section 54EC for income tax...
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The issue under consideration is whether sale of agricultural land after conversion taxing under capital gain or under business income? ITAT direct the A.O. to treat the property on sale of land as capital gains and given the benefit of exemption claimed by the assessee U/s 54F of the Act.
The provisions of section 54GB of the Income Tax Act exempts the capital gain arising from transfer of a long term capital assets being a ‘residential property’, if the amount is invested in subscription of the equity shares of the eligible company. The present article highlights the said exemption provisions of section 54GB.
S. 45(3) and S. 45(4) were brought in to the statute book to deem pooling of assets by partners in to the firm and distribution of assets by the firm to partners on dissolution or otherwise, as transfers for tax purposes with a view to block certain escape routes for avoiding capital gains tax.
The present article briefly covers the exemption provisions of section 54GA of the Income Tax Act. As per provisions of section 54GA, any capital gain arisen on the transfer of the capital assets (being machinery or plant or building or land) of an industrial undertaking which is situated in an urban area would be exempt. […]
On agricultural Land no tax is payable when the compensation/enhanced compensation is received by the assessee as their land were agricultural land. The compensation was received in respect of agricultural land belonging to the assessee which had been acquired by the state government.
Section 54G of the Income Tax Act provides exemption towards capital gain arisen on the transfer of capital assets like plant or machinery or land or building which is forming part of an industrial undertaking being situated in an urban area. Such transfer should be on account of shifting of industrial undertaking from the urban […]
Article explains Circumstances to be fulfilled for availing exemption under section 54F, What ‘Net Consideration’ means for Section 54F, Non-availability of exemption under section 54F, Amount of exemption available under section 54F, Circumstances under which Section 54F exemption would be withdrawn and Synopsis of the entire provisions of section 54F of the Income Tax Act. […]
Amidst the current economic turmoil going on globally on account of the disruption in the supply chain and economic stillness for a period, there are certain inconspicuous benefits in terms of capital gains tax under the income tax provisions which if planned well may benefit to an extent depending on the income profile and the tax brackets of the person.
As is well-known in income-tax circles, there continues to be a lot of controversy about the interpretation of the provisions of section 45(4) of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (the Act). Under section 45(4) of the Act, capital gains tax is sought to be charged on a firm in case of transfer of a capital asset and distribution of capital assets, on the dissolution of the firm or otherwise.
Invest in the long term specified asset and get long term capital gain exempt under section 54EE of the Income Tax Act In case there is a long term capital gain, and the assessee invests the amount into a long term specified asset, then, such assessee would be eligible to avail exemption under section 54EE […]
