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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


Expanding Scope of Income Under Income Tax

July 12, 2015 10103 Views 0 comment Print

The word income has a special significance in Income-tax machinery as the income-tax is a tax upon the ‘income’. Section 2 (24) of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1961 [which corresponds to section 2 (6C) of the Income-tax Act, 1922] contains the inclusive definition of income.

Loan foreclosure charges are eligible for deduction u/s 24(b)

June 25, 2015 12748 Views 0 comment Print

1. The assessee is an individual, who earned rental income from certain properties and claimed deduction for interest on loan paid by the assessee as interest u/s 24(b)of the Income Tax Act, 1961. 2. The A.O., on perusal of interest certificate given by the bank, noticed that out the total interest of Rs. 29,89,223/-

Where renting out properties is main business, then income is rightly taxed as Business Income- SC

June 25, 2015 12562 Views 0 comment Print

Appellant assessee Company, incorporated with main objective as stated in MOA is to acquire the properties in the city of Chennai (Earlier named as Madras) and to let out those properties. The company had returned it income, as income from Business

SC on Taxability of income from letting of properties (House Property or Business Income)

May 6, 2015 8333 Views 0 comment Print

The appellant-assessee is a company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act. Its main objective, as stated in the Memorandum of Association, is to acquire the properties in the city of Madras (now Chennai) and to let out those properties.

Tax Planning- Income From House Property

May 4, 2015 17815 Views 1 comment Print

1. How is income to be computed, if a property is partly let out and partly self-occupied? Answer. It has to be treated as two residential units and income from each unit has to be computed according to law by allocating common outgoings on a basis proportionate to area of occupation.

Karanpura Development Co. Ltd. Vs. CIT (Supreme Court)

May 1, 2015 4311 Views 0 comment Print

Held, that the assessee company in acquiring the head leases and in granting the sub-leases was carrying on a business within its memorandum of association and that the increased salami received from the sub-lessees represented profits of that business, liable to be included in the assessable income for purposes income-tax and business profits tax.

Sultan Brothers (P) Ltd. v. CIT (Supreme Court)

May 1, 2015 9776 Views 0 comment Print

Sultan Brothers (P) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax’ [1964 (5) SCR 807]. Whether a particular letting is business has to be decided in the circumstances of each case. It would not be the doing of a business if it was exploitation of his property by an owner.

East India Housing and Land Development Trust Ltd. v. CIT (Supreme Court)

May 1, 2015 8000 Views 0 comment Print

The income derived by the company from shops and stalls is income received from property and falls under the specific head described in section 9. The character of that income is not altered because it is received by a company formed within object of developing and setting up markets.

Godown Rent cannot be treated as business Income as it’s not a continuous activity from year to year

March 11, 2015 22059 Views 2 comments Print

High Court held that Business is a continuous activity which is done year to year. Here, in this case the Assessee let out his godown and shown income as Income from Business instead of Income from property to which the High court do not agree

All about taxability of Income From house property

March 3, 2015 33578 Views 0 comment Print

Determination of Annual Value of Self-occupied property. Annual Value of one house away from work place.Determination of Annual Value of Let out house properties. Other Permissible Deductions from Annual Value in cases of let out properties. Interest for pre-construction period. Benefit for vacancy for the period when the property remains vacant (in cases of let out proporties). Exclusion of unrealised rent from annual value. Set off and carry forward of loss in cases of house properties. Computation Of Income From Self Occupied Property. Interest on borrowed capital for self occupied property. Deductions Under Section 80C In Relation To Investment In New Residential House Property

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