Finance/Compliance Consultant
74370 Points
Posted on 08 November 2026
Plotting land and surrendering roads or open spaces:
• Converting land into plots and selling them: if done as business (developing and selling plots), it's business income. Converting a capital asset (land) into stock-in-trade attracts Sec 45(2) (capital gain on conversion, taxable when plots are sold).
• Land surrendered to the government or local authority for roads and open spaces (as required by layout approval rules, without compensation): it's part of the cost of developing the saleable plots. Its cost is absorbed into the cost of the saleable plots (allocate the total land cost over the saleable area).
• Development expenses (roads, drainage) are added to cost.