Hi Forum,
Recently my uncle gave me some share certificates of a company as birthday gift and I checked the status of shares and they were not being traded rather a buy back option had come up. I applied all the shares in buy back and got a big sum of money.
My question is :
1. Am i liable to pay Income Tax on the money received by selling/buy back offer? If yes, then how much percent as tax
2. Is there any way i can save tax by investing this money towards my housing loan, fixed deposit, RBI bonds etc?
3. If this is considered as gift from uncle at what rate will this be taxed? What is the proof I need to have to show that the shares were given as gift?
Regards,
Anil