TaxGuru Newsletter Subscription
Information You Can Rely On.
Income Tax - GIFT TAX: The tax levied on the gifts that you have received in money or its worth and which is over and above a certain set limit by the Indian law is known as gift tax. Income tax on gifts helps regulate the gives which is given to you by a person who is not a close relative as per the definition of Income Tax Law of India....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Want to gift a property or life time savings to your loved ones? Or have you received a car as a gift on your birthday? Are you worried about the cash gifts received on your wedding? Enjoy giving or receiving gifts guilt-free once you are mindful of the Gifting provisions in India....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Article contains FAQ on Gift, ,list of relatives from whom an individual can receive the gifts without any income tax liability and also giving below Performa of gift deed....
Read MoreIncome Tax - A receipt of sum of money or property* without consideration chargeable to tax under S. 56(2)(VII) if the following condition are satisfied. 1. Individual or HUF 2. Received on or after 01.10.2009and before 01.04.2017 3. Sum of money or property falls in any of the following category 4. It does not fall under exempted category...
Read MoreIncome Tax - If an individual/Huf receives from any person or persons any gift , exceeding Rs. 50000 in any previous year, as per income tax laws, the aggregate amount shall be taxable as Income From Other Sources in the hands of individual or HUF U/s 56. The gift can be the following...
Read MoreIncome Tax - he Bombay High Court ruled on Wednesday that no part of an ancestral family property can be ‘gifted’ away. The court in a landmark order while resolving the dispute over a 69-year-old gift deed declared as void the document dating back to 1941, which said that Miraj resident Mallapa had gifted a portion of his ancestral property to hi...
Read MoreIncome Tax - From now on, when you get a gift in kind, valued at more than Rs. 50,000, from your parents or other relatives, make sure you have a sworn affidavit declaring the donor your kin.The Central Board of Direct Taxes has ruled that any such gift will be taxable for the donee unless it is from relatives or given during occasions such as marriag...
Read MoreShri Ashok Mahindru Vs. ITO (ITAT Delhi) - While deleting an addition made in respect of undisclosed income, the Delhi bench of the ITAT held that the gift received by the assessee cannot be treated as non-genuine merely for the reason that the family members of the assessee had received bogus gifts during the same year....
Read MoreShri P. Vijayadeva Reddy Vs Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (ITAT Bangalore) - If the gift is invalid then the assessee is not even owner of any property and therefore, no question arises for making addition in the hands of the assessee in respect of that property which is not even owned by the assessee and in that case also, addition if any may be made in the hands of the do...
Read MoreRajinder Mohan Lal Vs Pr. CIT (Punjab & Haryana High Court) - The assessee in order to draw benefit of the exemption under Proviso to section 56(2)(vi) of the Act was required to prove that the said gifts were received from any relative described there under or had been received on the occasion of marriage of the individual i.e., assessee....
Read MoreDCIT Vs Ateev V. Gala (ITAT Mumbai) - Relative explained in Explanation to section 56(2)(vi) of the Act includes relatives and as the assessee received gift from his HUF, which is a group of relatives, the gift received by the assessee from the HUF should be interpreted to mean that the gift was received from the relatives therefore the...
Read MoreACIT Vs. Anuj Agarwal (ITAT Mumbai) - Provisions of section 56(2)(v) applied only to gift on or after 1-9-2004. Prior to introduction of section 56(2)(vii) by the Finance Act, 2009 w.e.f. 1.10.2009, gifts in kind were outside the purview of section 56(2)(v) or (vi)....
Read MoreNotification No. 23/2018-Income Tax [S.O. 2087(E)] - (24/05/2018) - Income Tax Rule 11UA deals with Valuation of jewellery, archaeological collections and shares and securities for the purpose of Section 56. As per Clause (b) of Sub-Rule 2 of Rule 11UA earlier merchant banker and Chartered Accountant were allowed to do valuation of unquoted equity shares under Dis...
Read MorePRESS RELEASE No.402/92/2006-MC - (30/09/2009) - The Income Tax Act 1961 (the Act) has been amended with effect from 1st October 2009 to provide that any gift-in-kind, being an immovable property or any other property, the value of which exceeds Rs.50,000 (rupees fifty thousand), will become taxable in the hands of the donee, being an individual o...
Read More
Notification No. 23/2018-Income Tax [S.O. 2087(E)] - (24/05/2018) -
