Capital Gains Exemption on Sale of Gifted Property !

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The confusion regarding capital gains on sale of property received as gift from relative is very common among  tax payers. One such tax payer, a subscriber to this blog Sri Som Rajan , has  asked by mail “Whether sale of gifted property is exempt from  LT capital gain, e.g. land gifted by parents.”.Since the question asked by...

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Capital Gains: Date of Purchase or Sale Not Excluded for Computing Period of Holdings !

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The tax rate for long term capital gains on listed shares sold through recognized stock exchange is NIL and the short term capital gains is 15 % for listed shares.How do you consider a capital asset as long term or short term is given in section 2 (42A) of the Income tax Act which states...

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Gift of Asset:Which Year Taken For Indexation of Cost?

The assessee had sold a flat received by her as a gift .The assessee adopted the cost inflation index applicable to the financial year 1992-93 for working out the indexed cost of acquisition and computed long-term capital gain as teh said flat was bought in the year FY 1992-93. However,the Assessing Officer worked out the...

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Sale of Inherited Land Plotwise-Whether Business Activity

In a family partition, the assessee was allotted amongst others 6 bighas of agricultural land, situate at Bahaodapur, district Gwalior. The land is within the municipal limits. By various sale deeds, executed in favour of 44 persons between April 1980 to December 1980, different parcels of lands were sold through two commission agents.On these facts, [...]

Partner , Firm , Land Sale and Taxation !

One of the partners of th assessee which was in business of cloth merchant in the city of Madras., on behalf of the firm, entered into an agreement for purchase of land in the city of Poona.The partner , on behalf of the firm, was to receive Rs. 41,115.62 out of the total consideration of [...]