CAPITAL GAINS ON SALE OF LAND (a general article by Mr.Kunjan Shah on 6-july-2011 for benefit of any visitor on our site) BELOW IS A GENERAL WRITE UP WHICH MAY BE USEFUL TO ANYONE WHO SELLS land in India in financial year 2010-2011 ,
Disclaimer :- A) A) We have assumed that the land is :- 1. is non-agricultural and 2. Even if it is agricultural land, it is situated in these 3 zones in India (a) in any area which is comprised within the jurisdiction of a municipality (whether known as a municipality, municipal corporation, notified area committee, town area committee, town committee, or by any other name) or (b) a cantonment board and which has a population of not less than ten thousand according to the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published before the first day of the previous year; or (c) in any area within such distance, not being more than eight kilometres, from the local limits of any municipality or cantonment board B) Money has been received by seller ; Please Note that seller can ether purchase another house or seller has to deposit in a bank a/c. scheme called capital gain scheme before due date of seller's income tax return for Assessment year 2011-2012, (which could be 31.july.2011 or 30.sept.2011) C) We are assuming seller has sold in period from 1.4.2010 to 31.3.2011. To summarise, prima facie, if you satisfy with conditions stated above u/s. 54 F, you can claim the exemption.
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