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GIFTS - EXEMPTED IN CERTAIN CASES

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..... GIFTS - EXEMPTED IN CERTAIN CASES
By: - RUPESH NAGPAL
Income Tax
Dated:- 2-12-2010

Gifts from these 36 Relatives are tax free! As we all are aware of about the taxability of Gifts as the amended provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961. I have tried to summarize the available list of relatives , in whose cases the amount of gift received from them is exempted from the taxing provis .....

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..... ions of the Section 56(2)(vii). Firstly we need to give a plain reading to the aforesaid section Section 56(2)(vii) says Where an individual or a Hindu undivided family receives, in any previous year, from any person or persons on or after the 1st day of October, 2009,- (a) any sum of money, without consideration, the aggregate value of which exceeds fifty thousand rupees, the whole of the a .....

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..... ggregate value of such sum; (b) any immovable property, without consideration, the stamp duty value of which exceeds fifty thousand rupees, the stamp duty value of such property;] (c) any property, other than immovable property,- (i) without consideration, the aggregate fair market value of which exceeds fifty thousand rupees, the whole of the aggregate fair market value of such property; .....

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..... (ii) for a consideration which is less than the aggregate fair market value of the property by an amount exceeding fifty thousand rupees, the aggregate fair market value of such property as exceeds such consideration : Provided that where the stamp duty value of immovable property as referred to in sub-clause (b) is disputed by the assessee on grounds mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 50C, .....

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..... the Assessing Officer may refer the valuation of such property to a Valuation Officer, and the provisions of section 50C and sub-section (15) of section 155 shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the stamp duty value of such property for the purpose of sub-clause (b) as they apply for valuation of capital asset under those sections shall be chargeable to income-tax under the head "Income .....

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..... from other sources" Provided further that this clause shall not apply to any sum of money or any property received- (a) from any relative; or (b) on the occasion of the marriage of the individual; or (c) under a will or by way of inheritance; or (d) in contemplation of death of the payer or donor, as the case may be; or (e) from any local authority as defined in the Explanation to cla .....

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..... use (20) of section 10; or (f) from any fund or foundation or university or other educational institution or hospital or other medical institution or any trust or institution referred to in clause (23C) of section 10; or (g) from any trust or institution registered under section 12AA. Explanation.-For the purposes of this clause,- (a) "assessable" shall have the meaning assigned to it in t .....

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..... he Explanation 2 to sub-section (2) of section 50C; (b) "fair market value" of a property, other than an immovable property, means the value determined in accordance with the method as may be prescribed ; (c) "jewellery" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Explanation to sub-clause (ii) of clause (14) of section 2; (d) "property" [means the following capital asset of the assessee, n .....

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..... amely:-] (i) immovable property being land or building or both; (ii) shares and securities; (iii) jewellery; (iv) archaeological collections; (v) drawings; (vi) paintings; (vii) sculptures; (viii) any work of art; [or] (ix) bullion;] (e) "relative" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Explanation to clause (vi) of sub-section (2) of this section; (f) "stamp duty valu .....

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..... e" means the value adopted or assessed or assessable by any authority of the Central Government or a State Government for the purpose of payment of stamp duty in respect of an immovable property;] Explanation.-For the purposes of this clause, "relative" means- (i) spouse of the individual; (ii) brother or sister of the individual; (iii) brother or sister of the spouse of the individual; .....

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..... (iv) brother or sister of either of the parents of the individual; (v) any lineal ascendant or descendant of the individual; (vi) any lineal ascendant or descendant of the spouse of the individual; (vii) spouse of the person referred to in clauses (ii) to (vi) Based on aforesaid definition , here is the list 36 kinds of relations , gift from whom is not taxable in your hand Gifts from thes .....

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..... e persons not taxable Sr. No. DONOR'S RELATIVE 1 Wife/ Husband 2 Brother 3 Sister 4 Husband's Brother 5 Husband's Sister 6 Wife's Brother 7 Wife's Sister 8 Father 9 Mother 10 Father's Brother 11 Father's Sister 12 Mother's Brother 13 Mother's Sister 14 Son 15 Daughter 16 Grandson 17 Grand Father 18 Grand Mother 19 Great Grand Father 20 Great Grand Mother .....

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..... 21 Wife/Husband 's Father 22 Wife/Husband's Mother 23 Wife/Husband's Grand Father 24 Wife/Husband's Grand Mother 25 Wife/husband's Great Grand Father 26 Wife/Husband's Great Grand Mother 27 Brother's Wife 28 Sister's Husband 29 Father's Brother's Wife 30 Father's Sister's Husband 31 Mother's Brother's Wife 32 Mother's Sister's Husband 33 Daughter's Husband 34 Son's Wif .....

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..... e 35 Wife/Husband's Brother's Wife 36 Wife/Husband's Sister's Wife I wish this be the complete list. Thanks
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