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New income tax act 2025 bring new relatives, whose Gifts are tax free?

Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 expressly includes maternal as well as paternal lineal ascendants and descendants in the definition of re...

June 8, 2026 5655 Views 1 comment Print

Taxation of Gifts from Family

Income Tax : SEO Description: Explains which gifts qualify for exemption based on the statutory definition of “relative” and why not all fa...

December 21, 2025 15819 Views 0 comment Print

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 2901 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 22251 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 401208 Views 61 comments Print


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Raj Kundra Gifted Shilpa Shetty ₹12.5 Crore. Now Tax Tribunal Wants to Know How

Income Tax : The tribunal held that a gift deed alone cannot establish legitimacy under Section 68. It directed fresh scrutiny of the donor’s...

March 20, 2026 1167 Views 0 comment Print

GST on Gift & perquisites supplied by companies to their employees

Goods and Services Tax : Gifts up to a value of Rs 50,000/- per year by an employer to his employee are outside the ambit of GST. However, gifts of value m...

July 10, 2017 7449 Views 0 comment Print

No Addition U/s. 56 for Immovable Property received at less than stamp duty value

Income Tax : The existing provisions of section 56(2)(vii)(b)(ii) provide that where any immovable property is received for a consideration whi...

January 20, 2016 7267 Views 4 comments Print

ICAI President’s Message – January 2013

CA, CS, CMA : Suggestions on Draft Rule 11UA of Income-tax Rules, 1962 Accepted: I am happy to inform you that our suggestions have found favour...

December 30, 2012 1507 Views 0 comment Print

Priyanka to pay Income Tax on Rs 6 crore and Kasbekar on Rs 4-crore

Income Tax : Actress Priyanka Chopra and photographer Atul Kasbekar will pay income tax on some undisclosed transactions. Priyanka will pay tax...

February 4, 2011 1292 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Gift from Mother Treated as Cash Credit: ITAT Allows Fresh Hearing

Income Tax : The ITAT Surat remanded a case involving a Rs.30 lakh gift treated as unexplained cash credit under Section 68. The Tribunal allow...

May 15, 2026 1617 Views 0 comment Print

Gift from HUF to Member Requires Verification Before Taxation: ITAT Rajkot

Income Tax : The ITAT set aside the CIT(A)’s order taxing Rs. 10 lakh received from HUF, emphasizing verification of the gift and HUF status ...

December 12, 2025 849 Views 0 comment Print

Unexplained Income Addition Deleted for Properly Documented Gifts from Relatives

Income Tax : ITAT Chandigarh ruled that cash gifts from close relatives, supported by affidavits and audited accounts, cannot be treated as une...

November 25, 2025 537 Views 0 comment Print

Gifts from Sisters Held Genuine – Section 68 Can’t Tax Natural Love and Affection

Income Tax : ITAT Agra deleted additions on gifts received from real sisters, holding that when identity, genuineness, and creditworthiness are...

October 28, 2025 825 Views 0 comment Print

Fully Explained Gift From Daughter Not Taxable as Unexplained Cash Credit

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi set aside an unexplained cash addition of ₹3.5 Lakh, ruling in favor of the assessee who received a gift from her adu...

October 4, 2025 1374 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


TDS & Tax on Salary | Section 192 | FY 2021-22 | AY 2022-23

Income Tax : CBDT issued Income Tax Circular No. 04/2022 on 15th March 2022 and explained all provisions related to deduction of Tax At Source ...

March 15, 2022 100461 Views 1 comment Print

Fee structure for Depository Participants (DP) operating in GIFT-IFSC

Corporate Law : The depository participants have been permitted to operate in GIFT-IFSC in terms of the applicable provisions under SEBI (Internat...

July 27, 2021 504 Views 0 comment Print

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 97008 Views 0 comment Print

Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) (Amendment) Rules, 2009

Fema / RBI : In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 46 of the Foreign Exchange Man...

May 22, 2009 3146 Views 0 comment Print


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

June 7, 2017 7536 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 67770 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.

Taxability on transfer of Unquoted Equity Share post Finance Act, 2017

May 12, 2017 4473 Views 0 comment Print

Central Board of Direct Taxes (‘CBDT’) has released draft rules relating to valuation methodology of unquoted equity share. The draft rules are in furtherance to the new sections as introduced by Finance Act, 2017 i.e. section 50CA and 56(2)(x). These sections are introduced to ensure that the sale consideration for transfer of unquoted equity shares are not understated.

Addition justified for Failure to prove genuineness of gifts received

July 13, 2016 1905 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 3151 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.

Step-son falls within the ambit of relative for Gift – Section 56(2)

February 6, 2016 9999 Views 0 comment Print

Samta Kamal Drolia Vs ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) Assessee has received Rs. 2.20 Lakh from His Step Father and contended that he received the amounts in gift. The ld.AR has rejected the explanation of the assessee on the ground that the assessee is step-son of Donor, therefore, their relationship does not fall within the ambit of […]

No Addition U/s. 56 for Immovable Property received at less than stamp duty value

January 20, 2016 7267 Views 4 comments Print

The existing provisions of section 56(2)(vii)(b)(ii) provide that where any immovable property is received for a consideration which is less than the stamp duty value of the property by an amount exceeding 50,000, the stamp duty value of such property as exceeds such consideration, shall be chargeable to tax in the hands of the individual or HUF as income from other sources.

Receipt without consideration (Gift) from Non-Relatives – A Tool for Tax Planning

September 26, 2015 13205 Views 14 comments Print

Any receipt without consideration or receipt with inadequate consideration from relatives (as defined under Income Tax Act) is not taxable. However, certain receipt without consideration or receipt with inadequate consideration even from non-relatives is not taxable.

Gift Receipt without Consideration to Persons other than Individuals & HUF

September 12, 2015 10977 Views 0 comment Print

In Layman’s language, gift is transfer of goods or property (movable or immovable) from one person to another without consideration. As per Income Tax Act, Receipt without consideration or Receipt with inadequate consideration, by individuals and Hindu Undivided Family is chargeable to Income Tax.

Gift to be treated as genuine if identity of donors is genuine & source of gift stays explained

July 29, 2015 2039 Views 0 comment Print

In the impugned year the blood relation is not necessary for the gift to be a genuine gift, but the relationship matters a lot. In all the probabilities the gift is found to be genuine as the donors have explained the source of gift, copy of bank accounts, income tax return.

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