Income Tax : The new law treats gains from depreciable assets as short-term capital gains for all purposes, not merely for computation. This ef...
Income Tax : The case explains how salary income is computed on a gross basis with only specific deductions permitted. It clarifies the scope o...
Income Tax : The issue concerns when capital gains become taxable under the law. The framework clarifies that gains are taxed in the year of tr...
Income Tax : The Finance Act 2023 introduced a 12.5% LTCG tax without indexation as an alternative to 20% with indexation. Taxpayers must compa...
Income Tax : When a resident buys unlisted shares from a non-resident, TDS must be deducted on gross consideration under Section 195, subject t...
Income Tax : Govt rationalizes long-term capital gains tax, reducing rates to 12.5% and simplifying holding periods. Relief provided for pre-Ju...
Corporate Law : Finance Ministry's new capital gains tax: Short-term gains at 20%, long-term at 12.5%. Exemption limit raised to ₹1.25 lakh for ...
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Income Tax : Schedule 112A and 115AD(1)(iii) of long term capital gain are provided in the Income Tax Return software as per the Instructions t...
Income Tax : Finance Act, 2018 has withdrawn the exemption under clause (38) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) and has introd...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that delivery-based share transactions shown as investments in books could not be treated as business income w...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi ruled that the holding period for capital gains purposes began from the date of full payment and transfer of possession...
Income Tax : The ITAT Ahmedabad held that reassessment under Section 147 was invalid because the Assessing Officer reopened the case for fictit...
Income Tax : The ITAT Surat held that abnormal price rise in a penny stock and surrounding circumstances justified treating claimed LTCG as une...
Income Tax : The ITAT Ahmedabad held that a demolished and uninhabitable structure could not be treated as a residential house for Section 54F ...
Income Tax : Ministry of Finance announces amendment to Section 48 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, introducing a new cost inflation index effectiv...
Income Tax : The Ministry of Finance, through the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), issued Notification No. 44/2024-Income-Tax on May 24, 2...
Income Tax : There was a report in certain section of media that stock traders/day traders are required to furnish scrip wise details in the re...
Income Tax : CBDT notifies Income Tax Cost Inflation Index for Financial Year 2020-21 or Assessment Year 2021-22 vide Notification No. 32/202...
Income Tax : Since the introduction of the Finance Bill, 2018 on 1st February, 2018, several queries have been raised in different fora on vari...
Meenu Goel Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The assessee has submitted various documentary evidences to prove the genuineness of the transaction of sale and purchase of shares which includes a copy of purchase bill dated 22.02.2010; a copy of share transfer form in the favour of the assessee; Copy of bank statement highlighting the payment made […]
ITO Vs Pritendra C. Jhaveri (ITAT Mumbai) Since the expression ‘held by the assessee’ is not defined under section 48, the same has to be understood as defined under Explanation 1(i)(b) to section 2(42A) which provides that in determining the period for which an asset is held by assessee under a gift or will the […]
Generally, the flat buyers purchase the flats under a letter of allotment and subsequently enter into an agreement for sale after some time. Sometimes the time difference between the letter of allotment and date of agreement is more than one year or it may be in two different financial years. When such flat is sold the issue arises is what should be the date of acquistion i.e. the date of letter of allotment or date of agreement?
Finance Act, 2018 has withdrawn the exemption under clause (38) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) and has introduced a new section 112A in the Act, to provide that long term capital gains arising from transfer of a long-term capital asset being an equity share in a company or a unit of an equity oriented fund or a unit of a business trust shall be taxed at 10 per cent of such capital gains exceeding one lakh rupees.
Long Term capital gain and its affect in AY 2019-20
The biggest change implemented this financial year is the reintroduction of the long term capital gains tax on stock market investments. 10% Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax will be imposed on profits exceeding `1 lakh made from the sale of stocks and equity-oriented mutual funds that have been held for over a year.
Capital gains taxation has always been a contentious issue drawing the attention of Finance Minister in every Budget, with this year not being an exception. So Friends in today’s blog we are going to cover the taxation of LONG TERM CAPITAL GAIN (LTCG) arising from sale of listed shares as well as proposed amendment in […]
The objection of the revenue that the assessee intentionally waited for mechanical lapse of 36 months and deliberately put the date on agreement as 18-11-2009 to avoid the payment of tax is not tenable.
ITAT held that fantastic sale price was not at all possible as there was no economic or financial basis as to how a share worth Rs. 5 of a little known company would jump from Rs. 5 to Rs. 485. AO was justified in denying exemption under section 10(38) to assessee, being fantastic sale price was not at all possible in such a short time.
Under section 2(47)(v ) any transaction involving allowing of possession to be taken over or retained in part performance of a contract of the nature referred to in section 53A of the 1882 Act would come within the ambit of section 2(47)(v).
