COURT: | ITAT Mumbai |
CORAM: | D. Manmohan VP, Sanjay Arora (AM) |
SECTION(S): | 50, 54EC |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | Deduction u/s 54EC, Depreciation, short-term capital gains |
COUNSEL: | Sunil T. Vankawala |
DATE: | October 14, 2015 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | October 30, 2015 (Date of publication) |
AY: | 2009-10 |
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Correctness of law laid down by Bombay High Court in Ace Builder 281 ITR 210 that deduction u/s 54EC is available to short-term capital gains computed u/s 50 doubted by Tribunal |
By virtue of the deeming provision of section 50, cost of a long-term capital asset (LTCA), i.e., as per section 2(29A), where depreciable, forming part of a block assets on which depreciation stands claimed, the capital gain on its transfer would have to be computed in terms thereof, i.e. by treating the WDV of the relevant block of assets (or, as the case may be, the relevant asset) as its cost of acquisition. The second deeming per the provision of section 50 is qua the nature of such capital gains, i.e., as capital gains arising from the transfer of a STCA. Section 54EC is available on capital gain arising on the transfer of a LTCA, i.e., which is not a STCA by definition. The same shall, therefore, not apply to capital gains computed u/s.50
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