LTCG ON PROPERTY SOLD IN PARTS

@ Ravinder Nanda

If each piece of property [registered separately by the buyer] was originally owned + registered in your name as a separate piece of property, then only LTCG or STCG[as applicable] would be considered individually for each piece of the property sold.

Otherwise, the whole deal would be considered as a single sale with the date of sale considered as the registration date of the first piece by the buyer.

And the zero or reduced LTCG benefit would be available only on one piece of property, not on all four.

So you will have to do your own calculations to find out which piece of property sold would be most advantageous to be used for using against purchase of a new property.

Many thanks for your reply-Pls also advise suppose it was originally one registry only in my name but buyer buys the land through two registries as he wants to make payment in parts then would I be entitled to reduced or zero LTCG for whole trasanction and from which date my window of two years for purchase of new residential property start-from date of first registry or from date of last registry-Regards

@ Ravinder

I am not a CA or a tax expert, but a novice, trying to learn swimming the turbulent taxation maze of India. So following views of mine should be looked at by the many Indian Taxation Experts in the forum and corrected if needed.

The scenario you mentioned now, would mean a single property sale, effective the date of registry of the first parcel.

And, the LTCG would need to be calculated for the whole property as a total.

And the 2 year window for setting off this LTCG against your subsequent purchase of another property would commence from date of the first registration.

For Section 54F (the exemption generally relevant when land is sold), the purchase window is linked to the date of transfer of the original asset, not the date the final instalment is received. If the four registrations relate to separately identifiable portions transferred on different dates, each transfer may have its own two-year purchase window and exemption computation. Later payment for an earlier transfer would not ordinarily restart that period.

The key is when ownership/rights in each portion legally passed under the sale documents and registrations; the payment date alone is not decisive. Also, Section 54F applies only if its conditions are met, including that the land was not agricultural land excluded from “capital asset” treatment and that the other eligibility conditions are satisfied. Review the deeds and dates before calculating the deadline.

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