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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 13470 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 2340 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 21492 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 398901 Views 61 comments Print

Tax Exemption on Gifts from Relatives: Tips for ITR Disclosure

Income Tax : Gifts received from specified relatives are fully exempt from income tax under Section 56(2)(x). Learn the definition of 'relative...

November 1, 2025 6807 Views 1 comment 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 897 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 7371 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 7213 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 1471 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 1244 Views 0 comment Print


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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 744 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 468 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 759 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 1239 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Rs. 8.5 Lakh Gift Addition, Citing Donor’s Balance Sheet Capacity

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata deletes Rs.8.5 lakh addition for cash gift against Abdus Sattar. Tribunal ruled that the donor's capacity must be jud...

September 25, 2025 384 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 100185 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 474 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 96777 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 3089 Views 0 comment Print


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

February 4, 2011 1244 Views 0 comment Print

Actress Priyanka Chopra and photographer Atul Kasbekar will pay income tax on some undisclosed transactions. Priyanka will pay tax on Rs 6 crore of cash transactions and Kasbekar on a Rs 4-crore gift, a senior income-tax official said. Income-tax officials raided them and actress Katrina Kaif on January 24. Katrina did not evade tax, the official said.

Income Tax department asks Shah Rukh Khan to pay tax on villa gifted by Dubai Co

January 13, 2011 904 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax department has issued a notice to Bollywood actor asking him to pay tax on the Rs 17.84 crore villa in the UAE, I-T sources said today. He received the villa as a gift from a Dubai-based company during assessment year 2008-09

When gift is not genuine, addition under section 68 is warranted

December 26, 2010 1818 Views 0 comment Print

Brief facts of the case are that the assessee received a gift of Rs.30,00,000/- from Mrs. Chandra Hingorani. The genuineness of the gift was examined by the Assessing Officer by considering the various documents including taking statements of the assessee which was recorded on 19.12.2006.

Receipt of money in bank account not enough to establish genuineness of gift

December 26, 2010 970 Views 0 comment Print

The issues involved in this appeal are that ld. CIT(A) confirmed the additions in respect of gifts claimed to have been received by the assessee for Rs. 1,00,000/- each from Smt. Sushilaben and Smt. Manjulaben. During the assessment year in question the assessee has shown to have received following gifts.

Unless and until gift is connected with profession or vocation, it cannot be taxed

December 10, 2010 1231 Views 0 comment Print

In the absence of link or connection between the gift made by the devotees and the profession or avocation carried on by the assessee, a religions head, the personal gift cannot be termed as income taxable under the Act

Mere receipt of money through banking channels not sufficient to prove genuineness of its receipt as a gift

August 23, 2010 1539 Views 0 comment Print

Genuineness of the gift transactions cannot be determined without looking into the human probability aspects, surrounding circumstances such as relationship of the donor and donee and if assessee fails to establish any of these facts, the gift transaction cannot be treated as genuine.

Doctors prohibited from accepting gifts from pharma companies

August 3, 2010 1011 Views 0 comment Print

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, in consultation with Medical Council of India, has recently taken more stringent steps to curb malpractices resorted to by the doctors by amending the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, on 10.12.2009.

Post Budget taxability of Gifts and of Transactions without consideration or inadequate consideration

May 31, 2010 753 Views 0 comment Print

The Gift tax was abolished with effect from October 01,1998. Thereafter, the practice of bogus foreign gifts itself had started with Government offering immunity for such gifts as part of disclosure scheme, but then the practice continues even after the amnesty period had expired. Unaccounted income found its way in many ways as in acquisition of immovable property, new constructions pretended borrowings and unreal gifts.

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

March 19, 2010 6403 Views 0 comment Print

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 his second wife Chandrabai ‘out of love’.

Finance Bill 2010: Deemed gifts under the Income Tax Act

March 12, 2010 7239 Views 0 comment Print

Clause (vii) has been inserted in section 56(2) by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009. Under this clause if an individual or a HUF receives on or after October 1, 2009 a gift (which falls in any of the following five categories), it is chargeable to tax in the hands of the recipients under the head “Income from other sources”.

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