Fema / RBI : Learn the FEMA rules governing gifts of money, shares, and property to non-residents, including documentation, valuation, and repa...
Income Tax : Understand the tax treatment of monetary, movable, and immovable gifts received by individuals and HUFs. Learn the ₹50,000 thres...
Income Tax : Summary of taxability of gifts under the Income Tax Act for individuals and HUFs—covering monetary, movable, and immovable gifts...
Income Tax : Gifts received from specified relatives are fully exempt from income tax under Section 56(2)(x). Learn the definition of 'relative...
Income Tax : Gifts to a spouse are tax-exempt for the recipient, but Section 64(1)(iv) clubs income from the gifted asset with the transferor's...
Finance : he Bombay High Court ruled on Wednesday that no part of an ancestral family property can be ‘gifted’ away. The court in a land...
Income Tax : In fresh trouble for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Income Tax Department has filed two appeals in the Income Tax Appe...
Income Tax : ITAT Chandigarh ruled that cash gifts from close relatives, supported by affidavits and audited accounts, cannot be treated as une...
Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that gifts received from a brother-in-law are exempt under Section 56(2)(vii), as the relationship qualifies as ...
Income Tax : ITAT Agra deleted additions on gifts received from real sisters, holding that when identity, genuineness, and creditworthiness are...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Chandigarh has reversed a tax addition of Rs. 6.75 lakhs on gifts received by an assessee...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore allows Section 54F capital gains exemption for an assessee, validating oral Hiba (gift) under Mohammedan Law and ov...
Income Tax : Amendment in Rule 11U and 11UA omitting reference to the term accountant, thereby permitting only merchant bankers to determine th...
Supreme Court held that the valuation of shares for the purpose of gift tax needs to take into consideration the limitations and restrictions.
ITAT held that cash gifts received by the assessee from her brother and sister cannot be added as unexplained income under section 69A.
There is no prohibition for the NRI for accepting the gifts from the relatives. In the absence of any prohibition, no adverse inference can be drawn against the assessee based on the prevailing system in the society.
As per the Hindu Law every member of HUF has a pre-existing right in the property of the HUF and any amount given to a member therefore from the HUF property tantamounts to only giving him what actually belonged to him and there is no question therefore of the same being any amount given for no consideration or in the nature of gift, which are covered in the scope of Section 56(2)(vii) of the Act.
It is the season of festivals and gifting to our near and dear ones is customary. Gifting is a way to show that you care about someone. Gifts can be in the form of money, immovable property, movable property such as Gold, shares, etc. Suppose, you want to gift your sister a perfect wedding gift. […]
Introduction: The title of the article emphasis on the applicability of Income Tax, on the gifts, whether movable or immovable received by an individual from any person on different occasions. Description: The Income Tax Act, 1961 bifurcates gifts received by an individual in the broad categories namely Gift of money (whatever the mode, cash or […]
A member of the ‘HUF’ has a pre-existing right in the family properties. A Coparcener has a pre-existing right and interest in the property and can demand partition also, however, the other members of the ‘HUF’ have right to be maintained out of the ‘HUF’ property. On division, the share in the estate/capital of the ‘HUF’ cannot be treated as income of the recipient, rather, the same will be a capital receipt in his hands.
The Indian Culture has thousands of years of history as well as various traditions attached to it. It is also a birth place of many religions like, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism etc. Beside, India is a country with diversified culture where each occasion is a reason to celebrate and show love and affection to close […]
Issue: Whether gift or amount paid by a closely held company to relative of shareholder will be treated as deemed dividend? In this article we are going to analyse a situation in which a company has gifted Rs. 50,000/- to one of shareholders’s son and AO has consider the gift as deemed dividend. PROBLEM: Mr. […]
It is customary in Indian for families to exchange gift at the occasion of marriage. This article deals with tax implications of such gifts received. General Provisions for taxation of Gifts in India Before abolition of the Gift Tax Act in 1998 the donor (giver of the gift) was required to pay gift tax on […]
