Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 expressly includes maternal as well as paternal lineal ascendants and descendants in the definition of re...
Income Tax : SEO Description: Explains which gifts qualify for exemption based on the statutory definition of “relative” and why not all fa...
Fema / RBI : Learn the FEMA rules governing gifts of money, shares, and property to non-residents, including documentation, valuation, and repa...
Income Tax : Understand the tax treatment of monetary, movable, and immovable gifts received by individuals and HUFs. Learn the ₹50,000 thres...
Income Tax : Summary of taxability of gifts under the Income Tax Act for individuals and HUFs—covering monetary, movable, and immovable gifts...
Income Tax : The tribunal held that a gift deed alone cannot establish legitimacy under Section 68. It directed fresh scrutiny of the donor’s...
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...
Income Tax : The existing provisions of section 56(2)(vii)(b)(ii) provide that where any immovable property is received for a consideration whi...
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...
Income Tax : Actress Priyanka Chopra and photographer Atul Kasbekar will pay income tax on some undisclosed transactions. Priyanka will pay tax...
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...
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 ...
Income Tax : ITAT Chandigarh ruled that cash gifts from close relatives, supported by affidavits and audited accounts, cannot be treated as une...
Income Tax : ITAT Agra deleted additions on gifts received from real sisters, holding that when identity, genuineness, and creditworthiness are...
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...
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 ...
Corporate Law : The depository participants have been permitted to operate in GIFT-IFSC in terms of the applicable provisions under SEBI (Internat...
Income Tax : Amendment in Rule 11U and 11UA omitting reference to the term accountant, thereby permitting only merchant bankers to determine th...
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...
The assessee is an individual, the respondent framed an assessment under the Act for the assessment year 1991-92 on the ground that the taxable gift exceeding Rs.12 lakhs has escaped assessment and therefore, notice under Section 16 of the Act was issued on 15.07.1992.
Komal, a renowned fashion designer, is famous across Pune city for designing stylish and elegant ladies wear. She designs suits, dresses, and other clothing & accessories for the middle-to-rich class of society. Once, Namrata, wife of a leading diamond merchant of the city, hired Komal to design a nightgown for a family function. Komal designed […]
It is customary in Indian for families to exchange gift at the occasion of marriage. This article deals with tax implications of such gifts received. General Provisions for taxation of Gifts in India Before abolition of the Gift Tax Act in 1998 the donor (giver of the gift) was required to pay gift tax on […]
The depository participants have been permitted to operate in GIFT-IFSC in terms of the applicable provisions under SEBI (International Financial Services Centres) Guidelines, 2015, as amended from time to time.
Income tax act does not specifically define the term gift. The term gift under the act means something that is received without consideration of for inadequate consideration. Section 56 of Income tax Act talks about taxation of gifts. This article will analyse gifts received from different person on different occasion and its tax implication. 1. […]
Gifts are usually capital receipts by nature. The Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’) which is levies tax on incomes, that is revenue receipts, carves out certain exceptions and levies tax on capital receipts as well. Gifts are one such receipt. The Act defines gifts as any asset received without consideration like money or money’s worth (in kind).
We all know that Gift Tax Act which was introduced from 1st April, 1958 in our country as direct tax, which was repealed from 1st October, 1998. Any person receives Gift from any other person, would be consider as income of the recipient as per section 56(2)(x) with certain exemptions. Section 56(2)(x) was inserted by […]
The primary question sought to be dealt with in this article is whether an unregistered gift pertaining to immovable property is a valid gift in the case of Mohammedans. To answer this, relevant provisions of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, the Registration Act, 1908, Mohammedan Law and judgments of various courts have been examined […]
Any person receives Gift from any other person, would be consider as income of the recipient as per section 56(2)(x) with certain exemptions. Section 56(2)(x) was inserted by Finance Act 2017 w.e.f.1st April, 2017 read as under: Where any person receives, in any previous year, from any person or persons on or after 1st day […]
Under Section 56(2)(x) Gifts from persons other than those covered in the definition of relatives are taxable under the Head Income from other sources. Now a question arises that is it sufficient to offer a Gift from a person other than relatives as Income from Other Sources and pay tax ? In my humble opinion […]
