ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT
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Originally posted by : anuj |
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no offences sir...but i cud not reely stop myself frm askin dis....did u do a balanced study???haha ....sry.... |
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Anuj,
There are two questions of capital gain. I hope your question is related with Question 5 (a) where a house is purchased by one person is gifted to another person (specified mode).
Before making the Gift there was an attempt to sell the property by the orginal owner and received an advance of Rs 25000/- and later the property is gifted.
If the property is acquired to specified mode, then the cost to the previous owner will be taken in to consideration. However, if the property acquired before 1981 one more rule will be there "Higher of FMV or cost of acquisistion.
Cost in the minute sense shall be amount paid for acquiring the house and any amount recovered as advance and these shall be taken to reduce the cost of acquisition. Forfeiture of advance is a beneift which is arised due to the capital assest . If we taking cost of asset to the previous owner, these benefit is required to be adjusted in the cost of acquisition of orginal asset else the calculation will go wrong.
Section 51 clearly says to deduct the same from the cost of asset. If there is any provisions which clearly state that the advance received by the previous owner shall not be deductible then i am in correct.