Assets u/s 2(ea){Wealth Tax}?????

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Hi to All,

Please arrange me the list of assets u/s 2(ea) which are exepmted and which are not exempted.

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[(ea)   “assets”, in relation to the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1993, or any subsequent assessment year, means—

   20[(i)   any building or land appurtenant thereto (hereinafter referred to as “house”), whether used for residential or commercial purposes or for the purpose of maintaining a guest house or otherwise including a farm house situated within twenty-five kilometres from local limits of any municipality (whether known as Municipality, Municipal Corporation or by any other name) or a Cantonment Board, but does not include—
       (1)   a house meant exclusively for residential purposes and which is allotted by a company to an employee or an officer or a director who is in whole-time employment, having a gross annual salary of less than five lakh rupees;
       (2)   any house for residential or commercial purposes which forms part of stock-in-trade;
       (3)   any house which the assessee may occupy for the purposes of any business or profession carried on by him;
       (4)   any residential property that has been let-out for a minimum period of three hundred days in the previous year;
       (5)   any property in the nature of commercial establishments or complexes;]
       (ii)   motor cars (other than those used by the assessee in the business of running them on hire or as stock-in-trade) ;
     (iii)   jewellery, bullion, furniture, utensils or any other article made wholly or partly of gold, silver, platinum or any other precious metal or any alloy containing one or more of such precious metals :
                Provided that where any of the said assets is used by the asses­see as stock-in-trade, such asset shall be deemed as excluded from the assets specified in this sub-clause ;
      (iv)   yachts, boats and aircrafts (other than those used by the assessee for commercial purposes) ;
       (v)   urban land ;
      (vi)   cash in hand, in excess of fifty thousand rupees, of individuals and Hindu undivided families and in the case of other persons any amount not recorded in the books of account.
                     Explanation 21[1].—For the purposes of this clause,—
       (a)   “jewellery” includes—
        (i)   ornaments made of gold, silver, platinum or any other precious metal or any alloy containing one or more of such pre­cious metals, whether or not containing any precious or semi-precious stones, and whether or not worked or sewn into any wearing apparel ;
       (ii)   precious or semi-precious stones, whether or not set in any furniture, utensils or other article or worked or sewn into any wearing apparel ;
       (b)   “urban land” means land situate—
        (i)   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 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 valuation date ; or
       (ii)   in any area within such distance, not being more than eight kilometres from the local limits of any munici-pality or cantonment board referred to in sub-clause (i), as the Central Government may, having regard to the extent of, and scope for, urbanisation of that area and other relevant considerations, specify in this behalf by notification22 in the Official Ga­zette,
                but does not include land on which construction of a building is not permissible under any law for the time being in force in the area in which such land is situated or the land occupied by any building which has been constructed with the approval of the appropriate authority or any unused land held by the assessee for industrial purposes for a period of two years from the date of its acquisition by him 23[or any land held by the assessee as stock-in-trade for a period of 24[ten] years from the date of its acquisition by him.]
                     25[Explanation 2.—For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that “jewellery” does not include the Gold Deposit Bonds issued under the Gold Deposit Scheme, 1999 notified by the Central Government;]

Thx for reply, can you please give me in short form or list at a glane form

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