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Main thrust of the appellant’s case is that the provisions of Section 68 of the Act as amended could not be given retrospective operation and if that position of law was accepted, then it was not open to the C.I.T. to direct an enquiry to ascertain the source and genuineness of the sums being projected by the appellants as capital receipts.
In order to avoid the unintended hardship to small taxpayer, the limit of exemption under section 56 may be increased from 50,000 to Rs. 5 lakhs.
While presenting budget 2017, there were several amendments proposed by Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley with respect to Taxation of Charitable Trust
Central Government has proposed several other amendments to the Income Tax Act which are in form of anti abuse amendments. One such important amendment is proposed in Sec 56(2) of the Act.
Continuation of Lower Withholding Tax Rate of 5% on Foreign Currency Borrowings- It is proposed to continue the withholding tax rate of 5% on interest on foreign currency borrowings before 1 July 2020.
The assessee in order to draw benefit of the exemption under Proviso to section 56(2)(vi) of the Act was required to prove that the said gifts were received from any relative described there under or had been received on the occasion of marriage of the individual i.e., assessee.
Central Government, hereby notifies the ‘classes of persons’ for the purposes of section 56(2)(viib)(ii) as being the ‘person’ defined under sub-section (31) of section 2 of the said Act, being resident, who make any consideration exceeding the face value for issues of shares of a ‘startup’ company.
Clearly, unless a receipt is not an income, there is no occasion for the provisions of Section 56(1) or 56(2) coming into play. Section 56 does not decide what is an income. What it holds is that if there is an income, which is not taxable under any of the heads under Section 14, i.e item A to E, it is taxable under the head income from other sources’.
It is proposed to amend the Act so as to provide that any shares received by an individual or HUF as a consequence of demerger or amalgamation of a company shall not attract the provisions of clause (vii) of sub-section (2) of section 56.
Samta Kamal Drolia Vs ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) Assessee has received Rs. 2.20 Lakh from His Step Father and contended that he received the amounts in gift. The ld.AR has rejected the explanation of the assessee on the ground that the assessee is step-son of Donor, therefore, their relationship does not fall within the ambit of […]
