| COURT: | ITAT Ahmedabad |
| CORAM: | Pramod Kumar (AM), S. S. Godara (JM) |
| SECTION(S): | 54, Rule 11 ITAT Rules |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | exemption, new residential house |
| COUNSEL: | Urvashi Shodhan |
| DATE: | February 9, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | February 10, 2018 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2011-12 |
| FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
| CITATION: | |
| S. 54: The expression “cost of the residential house so purchased” in s. 54 is not confined to the cost of civil construction but includes furniture and fixtures if they are an integral part of the purchase. The fact that the assessee did not make the claim is no reason to deny the claim if he is otherwise entitled to it (Scope of Srinivas R Desai 155 TTJ 743 (Ahd) expanded) | |
The expression used in the statute is “cost of the residential house so purchased” and it does not necessarily mean that the cost of the residential house must remain confined to the cost of civil construction alone. A residential house may have many other things, other than civil construction and including things like furniture and fixtures, as its integral part and may also be on sale as an integral deal. There are, for example, situations in which the residential units for sale come, as a package deal, with things like air-conditioners, geysers, fans, electric fittings, furniture, modular kitchens and dishwashers. If these things are integral part of the house being purchased, the cost of house has to essentially include the cost of these things as well
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