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Taxation framework for Income from House Property

Income Tax : The framework clarifies that only owners or deemed owners are liable to tax under this head. Computation depends on annual value a...

April 4, 2026 561 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Income from House Property under Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The issue covers taxation and computation of house property income under the new law. The key takeaway is clarity on annual value,...

April 4, 2026 16938 Views 1 comment Print

A Simple Guide to classification of earning under Five Income Heads under Income Tax Act

Income Tax : A simple guide to the five heads of income under the Income Tax Act, 1961, explaining salary, house property, business income, cap...

March 1, 2026 1200 Views 0 comment Print

Difference Between Income from House Property: Annual Value, Deductions

Income Tax : This article explains how annual value is calculated under Section 23 and why it forms the foundation of taxable income from house...

February 27, 2026 759 Views 0 comment Print

Taxation of Income from House Property under Section 22 of Income Tax Act, 1961: A Comprehensive Analysis

Income Tax : This guide explains how Section 22 taxes house property based on annual value rather than actual rent. It covers computation steps...

February 27, 2026 2529 Views 0 comment Print


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Budget 2024: House Property Rental Income cannot be taxed as Business Income

Income Tax : From April 1, 2025, rental income from house properties must be reported under "Income from House Property," not as business incom...

July 23, 2024 5139 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Exemption on notional rent on second self-occupied house (Budget 2019)

Income Tax : While presenting interim Budget 2019-20 FM proposed to exempt the levy of income tax on notional rent on a second self-occupied ho...

February 1, 2019 5853 Views 0 comment Print

Rent Income and Tax Provisions

Income Tax : Tax on rental income - The rental income is added to the taxable income and tax liability is based on the tax slabs. Up to 30 perc...

December 23, 2008 4594 Views 3 comments Print


Latest Judiciary


Rental Income Can’t Be Reclassified as Business Profits based on Consistency Rule: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai ruled that an AO cannot reclassify rental income as business income if it was consistently assessed as income from...

September 17, 2025 1053 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Upholds Lease Rental Income as House Property: Applied Consistency Rule

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi rules rental income from leased property is taxable as 'House Property' for IHDP Globals, upholding consistency rule in...

July 18, 2025 507 Views 0 comment Print

Rental Income on Stock-in-Trade is Business Income: Gujarat HC

Income Tax : Gujarat HC ruled that rental income from a property held as stock-in-trade by a construction business is business income, not inco...

June 26, 2025 822 Views 0 comment Print

No Addition for Deemed Rental Income on Unsold Flats Held as Stock-in-Trade for AY 2015-16

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai clarifies tax on builders' unsold inventory, stating no deemed rental income on stock-in-trade. Also addresses 80G ded...

June 20, 2025 378 Views 0 comment Print

Unsold Flats: No Tax on Notional Rent for period Before Finance Act 2017 Amendments

Income Tax : Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Pune recently ruled that notional rent on unsold flats held as stock-in-trade by a builder ca...

June 20, 2025 852 Views 0 comment Print


Brokerage, electricity, legal expenses not allowable in calculation of House Property Income

September 23, 2017 11439 Views 0 comment Print

While calculating annual rental value for Income from House Property,  expenses like brokerage, electricity expenses, legal expenses and bank charges would not be allowed as permissible expenditures as these expenses are not covered under sections 23 and 24 of Income Tax Act, 1961 as permissible expenditure. Full Text of the ITAT Order is as follows:- […]

Interest on home Loan availed of to repay earlier loan is allowable U/s. 24(b)

August 31, 2017 22464 Views 2 comments Print

If second borrowing has really been used to repay the original loan and this fact is proved to the satisfaction of AO, interest paid on the second loan would also be allowed as deduction under section 24.

House property Income cannot be assessed as business Income without valid reasons

June 9, 2017 2199 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court in the case of Raj Dadarkar & Associates vs. ACIT [2017] 81 taxmann.com 193 (SC) has clearly held that in case the provisions of Section 22 are applicable the property is to be assessed as income from house property.

SC on income from property: Is it is chargeable as house property Income or business income

May 14, 2017 6621 Views 0 comment Print

merely because there is an entry in the object clause of the business showing a particular object, would not be the determinative factor to arrive at a conclusion that the income is to be treated as income from business

Rent for amenities if not separable from Rent is House Property Income

April 1, 2017 5778 Views 0 comment Print

These appeals are preferred by the assessee against the order of CIT(A) on common grounds. Therefore, these appeals were heard together and are being disposed off through this consolidated order.

S. 24(b) Interest on Loan taken to repay earlier Loan on property allowable

March 11, 2017 6243 Views 1 comment Print

Whether interest paid by assessee on loan taken for repaying the loan earlier borrowed for acquisition of the property is allowed as deduction u/s 24(b) of the Income Tax Act,1961?

Notional rent on security deposit cannot be considered to calculate annual value

March 9, 2017 2865 Views 0 comment Print

Assessing Officer to delete the 12% interest charged by him, on the interest free deposit received by the assessee, to determine the ALV of the rented property ignoring the well settled judicial principle that what is important is the real nature of transactions in the relied on case supra and not the facts?

Remove proposed Restriction on set-off of loss from House property: ICAI

March 5, 2017 7281 Views 1 comment Print

The Finance Bill 2017 proposes to insert sub-section (3A) in section 71 to provide that set-off of loss under the head Income from house property against any other head of income shall be restricted to two lakh rupees for any assessment year.

Rent cannot be treated as other income for not recording construction expense in books

March 4, 2017 1461 Views 0 comment Print

Construction expenses not recorded in books of account, cannot be a ground for assessing rental income under the head income from other sources when conditions of Section 22 of Act for assessing annual value of property have been fulfilled by assessee.

Rent cannot be taxed in the hand of co-owner if his name is added merely to avoid succession problems in future

February 8, 2017 2709 Views 0 comment Print

Though the assessee is the sole owner of the property, he has included his wife and son as co-owners in the sale deed only to avoid succession problems in future and that they were also included as co-obligants in the loan agreement on insistence by the SBI to avoid legal litigation in future.

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