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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


Section 56(2)(x) CBDT grants exemption to resident of unauthorised colony

November 11, 2019 7147 Views 0 comment Print

Unauthorised colony means a colony or development comprising of a contiguous area, where no permission has been obtained for approval of layout plan or building plans and has been identified for regularisation of such colony

S. 56(2)(viib): AO cannot discard assessee’s method of Share Valuation

November 5, 2019 3402 Views 0 comment Print

Narang Access Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai)  In the present case the valuation done by the assessee for valuing its shares is on the basis of DCF method and the AO could not have substituted it by NAV method rather he should have arrived at another value, if any, by applying DCF method only. […]

Section 56(2)(vii)(b) Addition by adopting Land Value of Adjacent Area is unjustified

November 5, 2019 1836 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is whether the AO is correct in adopting land value of adjacent area, just because the colony is adjacent to a road, which has a higher guideline value is justified in law and in ignoring the specific guideline value fixed by the Government in respect of specific colony or flat?

Valuation of shares should be based on various factors and not merely on financials

October 30, 2019 3417 Views 0 comment Print

Valuation of the shares should be made on the basis of various factors and not merely on the basis of financials and the substantiation of the fair market value on the basis of the valuation done by the assessee simply cannot be rejected where the assessee has demonstrated with evidence that the fair market value of the asset is much more than the value shown in the balance sheet.

Start-Up – A Growth Engine For Economy

September 17, 2019 1431 Views 0 comment Print

Start-up India is a flagship initiative, launched by government in January 2016, within the ambit of the ‘Make in India’ programme. Start-up India was brought in with the intention to build a strong eco-system for promoting innovation, improve sustainable economic growth and to generate large scale employment opportunities.

Open Letter to FM: Suspend Section 43CA & 56(x) to revive Sick Real Estate Companies

September 6, 2019 16893 Views 4 comments Print

Real Estate Sector needs a bigger dose of corrective measures and concessions to bring out this sector from the red. One of the Demands of the Real Estate Sector is to Suspend Section 43CA & Section 56 (x) of the Income Tax Act.

Consolidated circular for Income Tax assessment of Startups

August 30, 2019 6537 Views 0 comment Print

In case of Startup companies recognized by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) which have filed Form No. 2 and whose cases are under limited scrutiny on the single issue of applicability of section 56(2)(viib) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act),the contention of the assessee will be summarily accepted.

Vicious Circle of Setting up of Over-Ambitious Revenue Collection Targets

August 24, 2019 1206 Views 0 comment Print

The Vicious Circle of Setting up of Over-Ambitious Revenue Collection Targets – Revenue Authorities Over-Reaching Taxpayers- Withholding of Refunds!! With a view to provide the much needed stimulus and push to the falling GDP growth rate and the currently prevailing slow-down in economy, the Hon’ble Finance Minister (FM) Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, in a press conference […]

Gift by individual to HUF is exempt same as a gift from HUF to its member

August 11, 2019 11766 Views 0 comment Print

Amount received by assessee from ‘HUF’, being its member, was a capital receipt in his hands and was not exigible to income tax as in case of individual, the HUF has not been included in the definition of relative in explanation to section 56(2) (vii) as it was not so required because in case of HUF,

CBDT simplifies process of assessment in respect of Startups

August 10, 2019 5922 Views 0 comment Print

In case of Startup Companies recognized by DPIIT which have filed Form No. 2 and whose cases are under limited scrutiny on the single issue of applicability of section 56(2)(viib),the contention of the assessee will be summarily accepted.

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