Income-tax Act, 1961

Section - 54ED - Capital gain on transfer of certain listed securities or unit not to be charged in certain cases

Capital gain on transfer of certain listed securities or unit not to be charged in certain cases.

54ED. (1) Where the capital gain arises from the transfer before the 1st day of April, 2006, of a long-term capital asset, being listed securities or unit (the capital asset so transferred being hereafter in this section referred to as the original asset), and the assessee has, within a period of six months after the date of such transfer, invested the whole or any part of the capital gain in acquiring equity shares forming part of an eligible issue of capital (such equity shares being hereafter in this section referred to as the specified equity shares), the said capital gain shall be dealt with in accordance with the following provisions of this section, that is to say,-

(a) - if the cost of the specified equity shares is not less than the capital gain arising from the transfer of the original asset, the whole of such capital gain shall not be charged under section 45;
(b) - if the cost of the specified equity shares is less than the capital gain arising from the transfer of the original asset, so much of the capital gain as bears to the whole of the capital gain the same proportion as the cost of the specified equity shares acquired bears to the whole of the capital gain shall not be charged .... To read the full section download the app from Google Play store