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Capital gain on Sale of depreciable assets

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Shiva

37 Points Joined June 2007

When a depreciable asset being a machine has sold from a Partnership Firm for an amount exceeding/lesser than its written down value, whether it is taxable as a capital gain/loss or business income/loss. (Machinery Acount contains other machine Also)

What is the amount to be deducted from machinery account ? Either WDV of the same Machine or Net sale proceeds

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Sathish Karunakaran

ACA

618 Points Joined March 2007

Friend, As per Income Tax Act, any difference between sale proceeds and WDV of the machinery will be dealt in following ways : a) still other machinery exists in the block - reduce the sales proceeds from the WDV of the block b) still other machinery exists in the block but sale proceeds exceeds WDV of entire block - the excess of sale proceeds over WDV of the block will be treated as "Short term gain/loss" c) no other machinery in the block other than sold one - the gain/loss from the sale transaction will treated as only "Short term gain/loss" Net sale proceeds = Gross sale proceeds - exps. incurred in connection therewith