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Cross-Border Family Gifting: FEMA Compliance Explained

Fema / RBI : Learn the FEMA rules governing gifts of money, shares, and property to non-residents, including documentation, valuation, and repa...

December 15, 2025 2751 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Treatment of Gifts Received By an Individual or HUF: Rules & Exceptions

Income Tax : Understand the tax treatment of monetary, movable, and immovable gifts received by individuals and HUFs. Learn the ₹50,000 thres...

November 18, 2025 22053 Views 0 comment Print

Taxability of Gift received by an individual or HUF with FAQs

Income Tax : Summary of taxability of gifts under the Income Tax Act for individuals and HUFs—covering monetary, movable, and immovable gifts...

November 3, 2025 400380 Views 61 comments Print

Tax Implications of Raksha Bandhan Gifts: What You Need to Know

Income Tax : Understand the tax implications of Raksha Bandhan gifts. Learn about exemptions for gifts from relatives and the tax rules for gif...

August 19, 2024 3576 Views 0 comment Print

Gifting to NRIs: Shares & Money Transfer Rules

Income Tax : Explore the guidelines for gifting shares and money from residents to non-resident relatives under FEMA and LRS, ensuring complian...

February 26, 2024 9096 Views 0 comment Print


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Ancestral family property can be ‘gifted’ away : Bombay HC

Finance : he Bombay High Court ruled on Wednesday that no part of an ancestral family property can be ‘gifted’ away. The court in a land...

March 19, 2010 6430 Views 0 comment Print

Affidavit must for gift in kind, over Rs. 50,000, from relatives

Income 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...

October 23, 2009 5164 Views 0 comment Print


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Gifts from Sister & Father-in-Law Accepted: ITAT Deletes Addition

Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Chandigarh has reversed a tax addition of Rs. 6.75 lakhs on gifts received by an assessee...

September 10, 2025 1005 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54F Exemption Allowed: Oral Gift Satisfying Mohammedan Law Validates Claim

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore allows Section 54F capital gains exemption for an assessee, validating oral Hiba (gift) under Mohammedan Law and ov...

June 22, 2025 5148 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Allows Post-Ceremony Marriage Gifts citing real-life practicality

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai rules that gifts received shortly after marriage are exempt under Section 56(2)(vii) of the Income-tax Act. The decisi...

June 21, 2025 4989 Views 0 comment Print

No capital Gain Tax on Gift of Immovable Property to Sister

Income Tax : From gift deed it is crystal clear that the said property was gifted by assesee to his sister out of natural love and affection an...

May 5, 2023 4449 Views 0 comment Print

Validity of Reassessment to verify genuineness of gift based on Assessment of relatives

Income Tax : While deleting an addition made in respect of undisclosed income, the Delhi bench of the ITAT held that the gift received by the a...

November 19, 2017 1884 Views 0 comment Print


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CAs cannot do Valuation of unquoted equity shares under DCF method

Income Tax : Amendment in Rule 11U and 11UA omitting reference to the term accountant, thereby permitting only merchant bankers to determine th...

May 24, 2018 96906 Views 0 comment Print

Gifts of property (gifts-in-kind) above value of rs.50,000 become taxable from 1st October 2009

Income Tax : 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 im...

October 1, 2009 2839 Views 0 comment Print


Taxation of Gifts received or Specified assets purchased by any person

June 8, 2018 7224 Views 0 comment Print

This article is about the taxability of gifts received or specified assets purchased by a person. Provisions of sec 56(2)(x) of IT Act 1961(introduced by Finance Act – 2017) deals with the taxation of gifts received or specified assets purchased.

Taxability of GIFTs for Individuals/HUFs

June 2, 2018 5373 Views 2 comments Print

In India we express our love and affection through gifts. There are various occasions for gift giving in our society like Rakshabandhan, Diwali, marriages, birthdays and the list goes on. But the government is keeping a close eye on such gifts as they may be misused by tax payers to escape taxes on their income by simply transferring their income to relatives and through other routes.

CAs cannot do Valuation of unquoted equity shares under DCF method

May 24, 2018 96906 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment in Rule 11U and 11UA omitting reference to the term accountant, thereby permitting only merchant bankers to determine the FMV of unquoted equity shares as per the Discounted Free Cash Flow Method

“Love”is tax free ?

February 13, 2018 42081 Views 8 comments Print

Valentine’s Day (14th February) is the perfect time to express your love in the most extraordinary way. While expressing love and affection to our beloved ones we carry out certain transaction of give and take, are they taxable?

Validity of Reassessment to verify genuineness of gift based on Assessment of relatives

November 19, 2017 1884 Views 0 comment Print

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.

Addition cannot be made for invalid gift of immovable property

November 5, 2017 1866 Views 0 comment Print

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 donor if the donor is not able to explain the source of investment.

Gifts amongst ‘Relatives’ – How long will they be ‘taxfree’?

June 7, 2017 7512 Views 1 comment Print

Inheritance tax is a levy paid by a person who inherits the estate of the deceased. This tax is viewed as a tool to reduce the economic and consequent social disparity between the rich and the poor.

Gift received from a HUF by a member of HUF is exempt from tax

May 20, 2017 67740 Views 2 comments Print

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 same is not taxable under section 56(2)(vi) of the Act, we hold accordingly.

Addition justified for Failure to prove genuineness of gifts received

July 13, 2016 1902 Views 0 comment Print

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.

Natsamrat’s Love, Gift and Income Tax

February 7, 2016 3130 Views 0 comment Print

When it comes to Love, it is obvious that we carry out monetary transactions and even lending and borrowing of money is done, but we have to be careful, proper planning should be made; so that one should not suffer like Natsamrat. Natsamrat is famous Marathi movie of Nana Patekar. Wherein Father gifted all his assets to loved children’s and then suffers. In the Context of Love of Natsamrat and Love on the occasion of Valentine’s Day, explain Love and gift with Income Tax provisions.

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