House rent paid by HUF bank account


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Paying house rent from a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) bank account does not make the rent tax-free for the HUF itself. While the HUF can use its funds to pay rent for a family member, this expenditure reduces the HUF's corpus and is not deductible from its taxable income. The recipient member, however, can treat this payment as a tax-free gift, but cannot claim it as an exemption against their own taxable income, unlike the House Rent Allowance (HRA) which is available to individuals.

(Querist)
22 April 2023 If i pay house rent to my owner by my HUF bank account; can it be considered under tax free income ?

22 April 2023 Its expenditure to you, where is the question of income?
Does the bank reimburses it?

RP (Querist)
22 April 2023 Sir,
Rent paid is tax free under HRA. only the clarity required is related to rent paid for family accomodation from HUF is tax free ? please elaborate

RP (Querist)
22 April 2023 Please mention what are the tax drawables/expenditures from HUF bank accounts can be considered exclusion from Income/Tax free

22 April 2023 Rent paid by HUF acc is not tax free.
HRA received by individual employee is exempt to certain extent.

22 April 2023 None of the expenditures except that u/s. 80D, 80DD, 80DDB & 80G are exempted for HUF.
Investment made as per sec. 80C can be claimed under IT act.

RP (Querist)
23 April 2023 https://incometaxmanagement.com/Pages/HUF/27-Drawings-Expenses-of-HUF.html#:~:text=Expenses%20on%20rent,Expenses%20on%20Electricity%20bill

23 April 2023 The article states that the HUF can EXPEND these many expenditures for any member/s of its family, from the corpus fund of HUF, but it doesn't mean they are tax exempt to HUF or it reduce any tax liability of HUF.
For example HUF can pay house rent for any member of its family, but it cannot claim HRA. HRA is tax exempt to individual earning salary income, which an HUF cannot earn. So, the amount gets reduced from its corpus.
On the contrary, the article specified that the expenditure incurred by HUF is not taxable income in the hands of its member/s. So, the member can enjoy it as tax free gift, but cannot claim its exemption against taxable income.


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