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Finance - Index Mutual Funds invests in stocks resembling underlying indexes. For example, a Nifty 50 index fund invests in stocks in the same proportion of its underlying index. Here one may conclude that returns of all index funds underlying the same index should be the same....
Read MoreFinance - When investors make profits on sale of assets like land, shares and mutual fund units, it is termed as capital gains. The investor has to pay tax on the resulting gains that is commonly referred to as capital gains tax. The amount of money outflow from your pocket depends on how long you held the property. If a residential property is hel...
Read MoreFinance - Nifty 50 is the most common, liquid and tracked index by all the traders/investors of the share market to determine the direction wherein the broader market is moving ahead. It is the flagship index on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) which consists 50 largest conglomerates of India based on the free float market capitalization of compan...
Read MoreFinance - Govt. has come out with index table called Cost Inflation Index whose base year was fixed as 1-4-1981. In Finance Bill 2017 the Govt. has taken a very bold step and has shifted the base year from 1981 to 2001 for the benefit of investors....
Read MoreFinance - Article discusses Meaning of Cost Inflation Index (CII) which is used for Computation of Long Term Capital Gain. Cost Inflation index are Notified by CBDT every year and till date CBDT has notified Cost Inflation Index for the Financial Year 1981-82 to Financial year 2020-21. Cost Inflation index are used for computing indexed cost of [...
Read MoreFinance - Calculate Long term capital gain on sale of capital Assets other then shares with the help of Indexation.- We have given below the Cost Inflation (CII) Index calculator which automatically calculates Indexed cost of your asset. In the calculator You just have to fill the Year of Sale, Year of Purchase , Cost of Purchase/Acquisition/Improv...
Read MoreFinance - According to a recent decision of the Mumbai bench of the Income Tax Apellate Tribunal, non-resident companies and individuals are entitled to a beneficial rate of tax of 10% on long-term capital gains arising from the sale of shares of listed entities. Earlier, non-resident assessees were taxed at the rate of 20%....
Read MoreFinance - Foreign companies cannot be discriminated vis-a-vis Indian firms so far as capital gains tax on securities transaction is concerned, according to an order by the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR). Giving its ruling in a case related to UK-based Fujitsu Services, AAR said the company should also be given an option of paying tax at [&hell...
Read MoreFinance - Markets have stopped trading for the day as the benchmarks hit another upper circuit Monday as soon as the trade resumed after 2 hour break. Investors are euphoric after the United Progressive Alliance emerged victorious in the 2009 general elections. Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex was locked at 14272.62 up 2099.21 points or 17.24 pe...
Read MoreFinance - The merger of Reliance Pertroleum (RPL) with Reliance Industries (RIL) is the latest in a long string of amalgamations and mergers that have taken place over time in the Reliance group. As per the arrangement announced by RIL, RPL shareholders of RPL will get one share of RIL for every 16 RPL shares held by […]...
Read MoreParwati Devi Totlani Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) - Interest paid on the borrowing made for acquiring Capital Asset (House Property) is part of the cost of acquisition and therefore eligible for indexation and deduction from the Sale Consideration for computation of capital gains. ...
Read MoreCIT Vs A.R.Builders & Developers P Ltd, (Madras High Court) - The issue under consideration is that, when two views are possible and A.O. adopt one of the view and passed his order accordingly. But that view is not acceptable by PCIT, in such case can PCIT adopt its one of the other views and call the order of A.O. the erroneous?...
Read MoreLakshman M. Charanjiva Vs Income Tax Officer (ITAT Mumbai) - Lakshman M. Charanjiva Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Indexation benefit against the cost of acquisition shall be available to the assessee on the basis of index of the year in which the payments were actually made by the assessee. The payment made up-to the date of agreement i.e. 18/10/2007 shall be indexed ...
Read MoreThe Commissioner of Income Vs. Manjula J. Shah (Bombay High Court) - The indexed cost of acquisition has to be determined with reference to the cost inflation index for the first year in which the capital asset was 'held by the assessee'. Since the expression 'held by the assessee' is not defined under Section 48 of the Act, that expression has to be understood as de...
Read MoreDCIT Vs. Manjula Shah (ITAT Mumbai) - This article summarizes a recent ruling of the Special Bench (SB) of the Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) [ITA No. 7315/Mum/2007] in the case of DCIT vs. Manjula Shah (Taxpayer) which held that, in the case of gifted capital asset, indexation benefit is available to a donee from the year ...
Read MoreNotification No. 32/2020-Income Tax [S.O. 1879(E)] - (12/06/2020) - CBDT notifies Income Tax Cost Inflation Index for Financial Year 2020-21 or Assessment Year 2021-22 vide Notification No. 32/2020-Income Tax dated 12th June 2020 at 301. Cost Inflation Index helps taxpayer calculation his Long Term Capital Gain on sale of Long Term Capital Assets. Also Read-Cost I...
Read MoreNotification No. 63/2019-Income Tax [S.O. 3266(E)] - (12/09/2019) - CBDT notifies Cost Inflation Index for Financial Year 2019-20 vide Notification No. 63/2019 dated 12th September, 2019. Cost Inflation Index for Financial Year 2019-20 at 289. MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) (CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES) Notification No. 63/2019- Income Tax New Delhi, ...
Read MoreNotification No. 44/2017-Income Tax [S.O. 1790(E)] - (05/06/2017) - CBDT has vice Notification No. 44/2017 notified Cost Inflation indexes with Base Year as 2001-02 for the Financial Year 2001-02 to 2017-18 and same are applicable from Financial Year 2017-18....
Read MoreNotification No. 42/2016-Income Tax - (02/06/2016) - CBDT has notified Cost Inflation Index for Financial Year 2016-17 / Assessment Year 2017-18 at 1125 . Cost Inflation Index for Financial Year 2015-16 was 1081 so there is an increase of 44 in Cost Inflation Index . ...
Read MoreNotification No. 60/2015 - Income Tax - (24/07/2015) - Notification No. 60/2015 - Income Tax S.O. (E) – In exercise of the powers conferred by clause(v) of the Explanation to section 48 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the...
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Notification No. 32/2020-Income Tax [S.O. 1879(E)] - (12/06/2020) -
Parwati Devi Totlani Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) -
CIT Vs A.R.Builders & Developers P Ltd, (Madras High Court) -
