banner_ad

House property

Tax queries 220 views 3 replies

Dear Sir/Madam,

For Example : - If individual is having house for Rs 35lac and he is filing his ITR(Income from House property) every year without default from last 20yr. And now due to some personal issue he want to sell his house for 50lac.

Now, my question is whatever amount is coming in his bank after selling his house. Is he need to pay tax on total amount i.e 50lac? Suggest me what to be done in this case and please clear my doubt with proper example or answer if require as earliest.

Thanks

Replies (3)
There is no need to pay tax on the entire sale consideration received. From the sale consideration the person can deduct any brokerage paid with respect to sales, Indexed cost of acquisition and Indexed cost of improvement.
Indexed cost of acquisition means cost of purchase of house * cost of inflation index at the year of sale/ cost of inflation index at the year of purchase (if purchase is made before 2001 then value as on 2001 can be taken). you can get cost of inflation index chart at Google. Subsequently after purchase if the house has been renovated the amount so expended can be deducted under indexed cost of improvement in the same way as acquisition. Sale consideration received left over after all these deductions will only be taxable.

Regards.
As far as I could understand by the given facts..I think you are asking about income tax treatment of the sale proceeds the assessee receives upon selling the said house properly. Firstly the said income will be chargeable u/h Capital Gains and not u/h house property. Now the Capital gains/(loss) as the case may be, is needed to be calculated in accordance with provisions of Section 48 of IT Act, 1961.
Illustrative computation of capital gain is as follows:
Since the period of holding in your case exceed 24 months then such sale is subject to Long Term Capital gains which may be computed as

Long Term Capital Gain =Sale Proceeds - Indexed Cost of Cost of Acquisition - Indexed Cost of Improvements( if any).

I hope it would be helpful..

Thanks for quick response.


CCI Pro

Leave a Reply

Your are not logged in . Please login to post replies

Click here to Login / Register  

Company
04 June 2026
Semi Qualified CA

Goyal Puneet & Associates

New Delhi

CA Final

View Details
Company
Featured 27 May 2026
Lead Conversion Executive / Sales Closing Executive

SMJ global advisors pvt ltd

New Delhi

B.Com

View Details
Company
23 May 2026
Article Assistant

Geeta Manchanda & CO.

New Delhi

CA Inter

View Details
Company
ARTICLESHIP 17 May 2026
CA Article /Trainee

Malik Sunil & co

New Delhi

CA Foundation

View Details
Company
26 May 2026
CA / MBA (Finance) / CMA / M.Com (Finance)

Sri Aurobindo Gnostic Centre of Education

New Delhi

CA

View Details
Company
Featured 26 May 2026
Account Executive

SMJ global advisors pvt ltd

New Delhi

B.Com

View Details
Company
19 May 2026
Accountant

ca kunjan

Mumbai

CA Inter

View Details
Company
21 May 2026
Associate

PWC

Kolkata

CA

View Details