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Share Premium Tax Above FMV: End of Section 56(2)(viib), Section 92(2)(m) Continues, Tax Gap Emerges

Income Tax : The removal of the provision means companies and investors are no longer taxed on share premiums exceeding fair market value, crea...

May 5, 2026 672 Views 0 comment Print

Fair Market Value Tax Rules: Gifts, ESOPs, Inventory Conversion & Share Transfers

Income Tax : This explains how fair market value governs taxation under multiple provisions including gifts, ESOPs, and slump sales. It highlig...

April 9, 2026 579 Views 0 comment Print

Lump-Sum Alimony vs. Monthly Maintenance :Tax Treatment

Income Tax : Courts hold that one-time alimony is a capital receipt arising from extinguishment of rights and not taxable. The ruling clarifies...

March 18, 2026 2169 Views 2 comments Print

Property Deal Mismatch? How Section 50C and 56(2)(x) Can Create Phantom Income

Income Tax : The article explains how violating the twin conditions under Section 50C(2) can block valuation relief and trigger taxation on hig...

February 12, 2026 1932 Views 0 comment Print

Understanding Income from Other Sources in Taxation

Income Tax : Overview of income taxed under other sources, including dividends, winnings, interest, deemed income, forfeited advances, family p...

November 15, 2025 11322 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Sunset of Section 56(2)(viib) Provisions: No Tax on issue of share exceeding FMV

Income Tax : Finance Bill 2024 proposes the sunset of Section 56(2)(viib) from April 2025, eliminating the tax on shares issued above face valu...

July 23, 2024 6345 Views 0 comment Print

Suggestions on proposed changes to Rule 11UA of Income-tax Rules, 1962

Income Tax : Amendment to section 56(2)(viib) of Act extending the applicability of section to issue of shares to non-residents has been made a...

June 1, 2023 1908 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT proposes changes to Rule 11UA ANGEL TAX & to notify Excluded Entities

Income Tax : CBDT proposes changes to Rule 11UA in respect of ANGEL TAX- Also proposes to  notify Excluded Entities In the Finance Act, 2023, ...

May 20, 2023 3120 Views 0 comment Print

IMB certification is not a prerequisite to avoid angel tax

Income Tax : IMB Certificate of Eligible Business is not a pre-requisite to avail the benefits of non-application of the provisions of clause (...

March 25, 2022 4596 Views 0 comment Print

Representation to FM to Widen Scope of Benefit of 20% for flats

Income Tax : Representation for widening the scope of benefit in case of difference in agreement price and Circle Rate of property is upto 20 p...

November 14, 2020 15186 Views 3 comments Print


Latest Judiciary


Stamp Duty Value Cannot Be Adopted Without DVO Reference When Property Title Is Disputed

Income Tax : Tribunal ruled that objections relating to defective title, encroachments, and legal disputes require proper valuation examination...

May 21, 2026 168 Views 0 comment Print

Difference Between Projected & Actual Revenue Cannot Invalidate DCF Valuation: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : Tribunal ruled that future projections under DCF method cannot be tested solely against later actual financial performance. It obs...

May 21, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

SC Allows Deduction of Grants as They Were Part of Statutory Business Activity

Income Tax : The Supreme Court held that grants disbursed by a statutory corporation formed part of its core business functions and qualified a...

May 20, 2026 222 Views 0 comment Print

Madras HC Upholds Deferred Taxation of Time-Share Fees as Obligations Continued Over Membership Period

Income Tax : Madras High Court held that time-share membership fees could not be fully taxed in the year of receipt since the assessee had cont...

May 19, 2026 126 Views 0 comment Print

Purchase of MHADA Leasehold Tenement Can Attract Section 56(2)(x): ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held that Section 56(2)(x) applies to purchase of MHADA leasehold property rights despite reliance on Section 50C ruli...

May 19, 2026 2478 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Assessment of Startup Companies involving application of section 56 (2)(viib)

Income Tax : Notification regarding Income-tax Act Section 56(2)(viib) and assessment of Startup Companies. Clarifications for assessing recogn...

October 10, 2023 2655 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment of Income Tax Rule 11UA- Valuation of Unquoted Equity Shares

Income Tax : CBDT) amends Income Tax Rule 11UA regarding valuation of unquoted equity shares for tax purposes. Learn about changes in this amen...

September 25, 2023 29277 Views 0 comment Print

New Income Tax Rules on Taxation of Life Insurance Policy Receipts

Income Tax : Details of Sixteenth Amendment to Income Tax Rules (2023) on computation of income chargeable under life insurance policies as per...

August 16, 2023 22074 Views 2 comments Print

CBDT releases draft rule 11UA to implement amendment by Finance Act 2023

Income Tax : In the Finance Act, 2023, an amendment was introduced in this provision to bring the consideration received from non-residents wit...

May 26, 2023 6372 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Notifies Classes of Persons for Income Tax Purposes under Section 56

Income Tax : CBDT issued  Notification No. 29/2023- Income-Tax specifying certain classes of persons for the purpose of sub-clause (ii) of th...

May 24, 2023 6225 Views 0 comment Print


Interest earned from deposit of grant not includible if income is remitted back to government

November 18, 2024 1608 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Bangalore held that interest received from amount of government grant which is remitted back to either central or state government and the benefit of the same is not received by the assessee is not to be added in the income of the assessee.

CoC empowered to decide to liquidate Corporate Debtor before confirmation of resolution plan

November 14, 2024 585 Views 0 comment Print

NCLAT Delhi held that section 33 of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) empowers the CoC to decide to liquidate the Corporate Debtor any time before the confirmation of the resolution plan by the Adjudicating Authority.

Order disregarding direction of the court cannot be sustained: Madras HC

November 13, 2024 1350 Views 0 comment Print

Held that the direction of this Court has not been complied. Any order contrary / disregarding the direction of this Court cannot be sustained as it renders the order bad for want of jurisdiction.

Source of capital investment explained hence addition u/s. 68 not sustained: ITAT Visakhapatnam

November 12, 2024 1158 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Visakhapatnam held that addition under section 68 r.w.s. 115BBE of the Income Tax Act deleted as the source for capital investment properly explained by the assessee. Accordingly, addition deleted.

Deduction u/s. 80-IA(4) allowed on interest from FDRs created as part of financial arrangement for infrastructure project

November 11, 2024 693 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad held that interest income earned from the FDRs, which were created as part of the financing arrangement for the infrastructure project, qualifies as business income derived from the eligible business under Section 80-IA(4) of the Act.

Section 56(2)(x) not apply to conveyance deed executed on 31.03.2017: ITAT Mumbai

November 2, 2024 1923 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that since deed of conveyance executed on 31.03.2017, provisions of section 56(2)(x) of Income Tax Act are not applicable. Section 56(2)(x) is inserted by Finance Act, 2017 and effective only from 01.04.2017.

Deduction u/s 80P(2)(a)(i) was allowable on interest income from surplus funds in Bank Deposits

October 17, 2024 1587 Views 0 comment Print

Interest income from bank deposits is eligible for deduction under Section 80P(2)(a)(i) as the funds in the voluntary reserves which were utilized for investment by the co-operative banks were the funds generated from the banking business.

Electricity Dept Can’t Withdraw State Industrial Policy Benefits Based on Audit Objection

October 16, 2024 702 Views 0 comment Print

Once the State Government had extended the benefit under the particular scheme, the same could not be withdrawn by the Electricity Department basing on the audit report. In absence of any evidence of theft being committed by assessee, the benefit of Intensive Policy could not be withdrawn.

Deduction u/s. 80P(2)(a)(i) allowable on income earned for providing credit facilities to members: ITAT Bangalore

September 28, 2024 1014 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Bangalore held that the co-operative societies providing credit facilities to its members is entitled to deduction u/s 80P(2)(a)(i) of the Income Tax Act. Thus, income earned on account of providing credit facilities is allowable as deduction u/s. 80P(2)(a)(i).

Section 50C applies only to sellers and not to buyers: ITAT Ahmedabad

September 26, 2024 6369 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad rules that Section 50C applies to sellers, not buyers, and clarifies the retrospective effect of Section 56(2)(vii)(b) on property transactions.

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