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TAX TALK-05.06.2017-THE HITAVADA TAX TALK CA. NARESH JAKHOTIA Chartered AccountantFor exemption u/s 54, investment of Long Term Capital Gain (LTCG) is sufficient & it has nothing to do with the amount of sale consideration. To claim an exemption u/s 54F, investment of entire net sale consideration is relevant. Issues in taxation of capital gain Query 1] Please advise which ITR is required for my Mother (senior Citizen) for AY 17-18. She sold landed property in Aug’2016 to third party. The amount was received by online mode & DD for Rs. 45 Lakh. By this amount, she invested for new flat in 2016 itself (same year). Flat Sale Deed Agreement Value is Rs. 68 Lakh. Pattern of Registration is: 1. Mother (38%) 2. Elder son (31%) 3. Younger son (31%). Whether exemption against purchase of new flat (38%) will be available to my mother? Income Tax of 68,000/- was paid by the builder since purchase value is above Rs. 50 Lakh. Rest of the Amount has been financed/ contributed by both sons by taking HB Loan. Sir, please advice which ITR has to be filled and steps to fill in. Whether son can claim income tax benefit available on housing loan against their share in the house property? [S.S.Rao - ss.r@rediffmail.com] Opinion: 1. The returns forms for the A.Y. 2017-18 (FY: 2016-17) are notified and its applicability for Individual/HUF is tabulated in the following chart:
Query 2] A residential house purchased by my father was sold in May-2016. I would like to know if the capital gain is invested in residential property which is under construction. Possession will be taken on completion which will be sometime in Dec-19. Can exemption of capital gain tax be availed? What documents need to be produced for claiming such exemption? [Arun Banerjee- dr_ak_b@yahoo.co.in] Opinion: 1. An Individual/HUF can save tax on Long Term Capital Gain (LTCG) arising from sale of house property by claiming an exemption u/s 54. For exemption u/s 54, taxpayer have to invest the amount of LTCG in purchase or construction of one residential house property within a prescribed time period. The prescribed time periods are as under: a] For purchase: One year before or two years after the date of transfer. b] For Constructions: Three years after the date of transfer. 2. Readers may note that the time period for claiming an exemption is different for purchase vis a vis construction. For purchase of house property, the prescribed time period is 2 years only. In your specific case, you have sold the house property in May-2016. For exemption against purchase, you need to ensure that you get the house property by May-2018. If you are constructing house property on your own through contractor etc, then the period of 3 years (i.e., up to May-2019) would be permissible. Your completion of construction by Dec-2019 would result in denial of exemption claim u/s 54. 3. Documents to justify the exemption claim: Sale deed/investment documents would be sufficient to claim exemption against purchase of house property whereas bills/Voucher & other records showing incurrence of expenses (including sale deed against purchase of plot) would justify the claim of exemption against construction of house property. 4. Scheme of Deposits in Capital Gain Deposits Account Scheme (CGDAS): Under section 54, taxpayer is allowed a time period of 2 years for purchase & 3 years for construction of the house property from the date of sale of original assets. However, the capital gain on transfer of the assets is taxable in the year in which the transfer took place (i.e., FY 2016-17 in your case). The return of income of that previous year has to be filed before the due date (i.e., July-2017 in your case). To offer the benefit of exemption at the time of filing the income tax return, Income Tax Act has specified a mechanism in the form of deposit under the CGDAS. The amount of the net sale consideration, which is not utilized by the taxpayer for purchase or constructions of the new house before the due date of furnishing the return of income, should be deposited by him in CGDAS, before the DUE DATE of furnishing the return. After deposits, the amount already utilized by the taxpayer for purchase/ constructions of the new house along with the amount so deposited, shall be eligible for exemption under section 54 in the year in which LTCG has arisen. Subsequently, taxpayer has to utilize the amount for purchase / construction, as the case may be, within a specified period of 2 or 3 years by withdrawing from the account. If the amount is not utilized for investment then the amount not so utilized would be taxable as the capital gain of the year in which the period of 3 years expires. In short, non utilization of deposit in CGDAS makes the amount taxable at the end of 3 years. The author is a practicing Chartered Accountant from Nagpur. Readers may send their direct tax related queries at SSRPN & Co 10, Laxmi Vyankatesh Apartment C.A. Road, Telephone Exch. Square Nagpur-440008 or email it at nareshjakhotia@ssrpn.com] |
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