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Unlisted Bonds Lose LTCG Benefit; No Capital Gains Exemption for Depreciable Assets under Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The new law treats gains from depreciable assets as short-term capital gains for all purposes, not merely for computation. This ef...

May 6, 2026 582 Views 0 comment Print

Taxation of Property Transactions: Key Section 54/4F Judicial Pronouncements – Part 2

Income Tax : Courts held that investment in under-construction property qualifies as construction under Sections 54/54F. Deduction cannot be de...

April 11, 2026 1173 Views 0 comment Print

Taxation of Property Transactions: Key Section 54/4F Judicial Pronouncements- Part 1

Income Tax : Courts held that exemption cannot be denied merely due to lack of registration if possession and substantial payment are proven. T...

April 7, 2026 9492 Views 0 comment Print

Analysis of 20% LTCG with Indexation vis-à-vis 12.5% Without Indexation

Income Tax : The Finance Act 2023 introduced a 12.5% LTCG tax without indexation as an alternative to 20% with indexation. Taxpayers must compa...

March 7, 2026 3234 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54 Capital Gains Tax Exemption – What Constitutes Date of Transfer?

Income Tax : Judicial rulings clarify that Section 54 focuses on timely investment of capital gains, not rigid legal ownership milestones. The ...

January 15, 2026 6894 Views 2 comments Print


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Representation against Extension of time limit under section 54 to 54GB without extension of Income Tax Return due date

Income Tax : Representation against Extension of time limit under section 54 to 54GB without extension of Income Tax Return due date Vidarbha I...

January 20, 2023 11676 Views 0 comment Print

Representation to FM on Concerns of Chartered Accountants

CA, CS, CMA, Income Tax : We have not noticed any heed being extended towards various issues and possible solutions we have proposed through those represent...

January 30, 2021 3204 Views 0 comment Print

Request to extend time limits under section 54 to 54GB

Income Tax : KSCAA has requested to Hon’ble Minister of Finance to extend various time limits under section 54 to 54GB of the Income-tax Act,...

January 10, 2021 15936 Views 0 comment Print

Request for extension of due dates of Tax Audit Reports/ITR

Income Tax : All India Federation of Tax Practitioners (CZ) has requested CBDT that due date of filing return of income u/s 139(1) for all the ...

December 19, 2020 32598 Views 19 comments Print

ICAI requests for extension of various Income-tax due dates

Income Tax : Direct Taxes Committee of ICAI has Request(s) for extension of various due dates under Income-tax Act, 1961 especially Tax Audit R...

December 18, 2020 77418 Views 20 comments Print


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Delhi HC: Additional Documents Can Be Filed in Criminal Tax Prosecution – “Truth Cannot Be Sacrificed for Technicalities”

Income Tax : The Delhi High Court held that additional documents already referred to in a criminal complaint can be filed later under Section 3...

May 12, 2026 177 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54 Exemption Allowed as Possession Date Considered Over Registration Date

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that for under-construction properties, the date of possession is the relevant factor for Section 54 exemption. ...

May 5, 2026 309 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54 Exemption not eligible on Sale of Open Land Without Building: ITAT Allahabad

Income Tax : The tribunal held that selling only open land, even if earlier part of a residential property, does not qualify as transfer of a r...

May 4, 2026 600 Views 0 comment Print

Wrong Section Claim Not Fatal: ITAT Remands Matter & Nullifies Penalty

Income Tax : The issue was denial of capital gains exemption due to claim under wrong section. The tribunal held that a genuine claim cannot be...

May 2, 2026 156 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai Remands Section 54F Claim, Protective Addition & TDS Credit Issues

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai set aside the appellate order and remanded issues on protective addition, Section 54F exemption, and TDS credit misma...

April 26, 2026 204 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


ICAI Reprimands CA for Claiming Section 54F exemption Instead of 54

CA, CS, CMA : The ICAI Disciplinary Committee reprimanded CA Jayant Ishwardas Mehta for professional misconduct involving an incorrect income t...

May 17, 2024 792 Views 0 comment Print

Extension of time limit for compliance under section 54 to 54GB

Income Tax : For claiming exemption Section 54 to 54 GB of the Act, for which last date falls between 01st April. 2021 to 28th February, 2022 m...

January 6, 2023 21432 Views 1 comment Print

Govt Extends due dates under Income Tax Law & Benami laws

Income Tax : Vide Income Tax Notification No. 35/2020 dated 24.06.2020  govt extends  Due date for ITR for FY 2018-19  upto 31.07.2020, Last...

June 24, 2020 263712 Views 11 comments Print

Amendments to Capital Gains Accounts Scheme, 2012

Income Tax : Notification No. 44/2012-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 54, sub-section (2) of secti...

October 25, 2012 7344 Views 0 comment Print


Section 54 amendment restricting deduction to One Residential House is prospective

March 8, 2021 993 Views 0 comment Print

Dinesh Chandra Dutta Bhargava Vs DCIT (ITAT Agra) The only question to be adjudicated in the instant case is whether the assessee is entitled for deduction u/s. 54/54F of the Act in the attending circumstances of the case or not and whether the changed legal position of section 54, as noted by ld. CIT(A), is […]

Amendment restricting Section 54 deduction to only one residential house is prospective

March 3, 2021 6969 Views 0 comment Print

Sanjiv Ahuja Vs ITO (International Taxation) (ITAT Delhi)  Deduction u/s 54 is restricted to only one residential house by the Finance Act 2014 is prospective in nature and is effective from assessment year 2015-16 and not retrospective in nature and that deduction u/s 54 of the Act in respect of investment made in one residential […]

Section 54 benefit cannot be denied on installments paid prior to one Year window

February 15, 2021 5394 Views 0 comment Print

Prakash Pandharinath Bakre Vs PCIT (ITAT Jaipur) Benefit under section 54 is available to an individual who has transferred a long term capital asset being a ‘residential House Property’ and the assessee has either purchased one residential house in India within a period of one year before or two years after the date of transfer […]

Time limit of reckoning for section 54 is to be read as 139(4) & not as 139(1)

February 10, 2021 4335 Views 0 comment Print

Harminder Kaur Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) In the instant case, the assessee has claimed deduction under section 54 of the Act against booking of flat before the due date of filing of return under section 139(4) of the Act. The Assessing Officer and the Learned CIT(A) has denied the deduction on two grounds. Firstly, the […]

Section 54 Exemption: ITAT remit file to AO for fresh consideration

February 4, 2021 1080 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Lakshmi Narayana Prasad Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) In this case, the claim of assessee u/s. 54 was denied on the reason that assessee has not filed any supporting evidence to show the sale consideration was reinvested in new residential property. Before us, the ld. AR pointed out to the copies of bank statements and […]

Representation to FM on Concerns of Chartered Accountants

January 30, 2021 3204 Views 0 comment Print

We have not noticed any heed being extended towards various issues and possible solutions we have proposed through those representations to your good selves and it gives an impression to us that the same were safely brushed aside by your ministry.

Request to extend time limits under section 54 to 54GB

January 10, 2021 15936 Views 0 comment Print

KSCAA has requested to Hon’ble Minister of Finance to extend various time limits under section 54 to 54GB of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act). It is requested that various due dates for compliance and completion of specified actions under sections 54 to 54GB of the Act which falls between 20.03.2020 to 30.03.2021 (as against […]

ITAT allows section 54 deduction on multiple flats in same premises

January 6, 2021 8769 Views 0 comment Print

Maurice Patrick De Rebello Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) The facts of the assessee’s case are similar to the case of Smt.K.G.Rukminiamma reported in 331 ITR 221 (Kar.) In the case of K.G.Rukminiamma (supra) the assessee on a site measuring 30′ x 110′ had a residential premises. Under a joint development agreement the assessee gave that […]

Section 54 deduction eligible on investment in house purchased abroad within stipulated time u/s 139(4)

December 23, 2020 2844 Views 0 comment Print

Joseph K. Zachariah Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) Section 54(2) of the Act has two conditions for availing deduction u/s 54(1) of the Act. Firstly, the assessee has to utilize the capital gain in purchase of new property before the due date of furnishing the return of income u/s 139 of the Act, which encompasses sub-section […]

Request for extension of due dates of Tax Audit Reports/ITR

December 19, 2020 32598 Views 19 comments Print

All India Federation of Tax Practitioners (CZ) has requested CBDT that due date of filing return of income u/s 139(1) for all the assesses be suitably extended, to 28.02.2021,from the current extended due date of 31.12.2020 for AY 2020-21. Simultaneously, the ‘specified date’ for filing tax audit reports be extended from 31.12.2020 to 28.02.2021 as […]

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