Tribunal held that S. 45 and 48 unlike the provisions of wealth-tax, do not make provision, providing for any deemed profit or gain to be taxable as a capital gain the mere fact that the Assessing Officer was of the view that the prevalent market interest rate was 18 per cent, or was at any amount above 9 per cent, could not render the assessee liable for being taxed on the difference amount as capital gain. According to Assessing Officer, the amount of security deposit received of Rs. 35 crore is sale consideration received and he apportioned the sale consideration for computation of short-term capital gain and long-term capital gain. In case of Siliguri land, the Assessing Officer computed long-term capital gain of Rs.78,81,841/- and short-term capital gains of Rs.13,67,67,379/-. In case of Darjiling land, the short-term capital gain of Rs.18,60,30,515/- was computed by the Assessing Officer. Tribunal held that during the relevant period, section 50C of the Act could be invoked only, if the property was registered before the Stamp Duty Authorities and in that case amount adopted by the Stamp Valuation Authority could be treated as full value consideration received. The amendment to include assessable value as full value consideration was inserted w.e.f. 01/10/2009 and, thus, the value assessable as per stamp value authority cannot be applied for taking full value consideration of the property. Once, we have held that provisions of section 50C are not applicable in the instant case, the question of referring the matter to the Valuation Officer in terms of section 50C(2) also does not arise. In the instant case, the assessee has received so-called security deposits as interest-free amount for the properties leased. This is the amount, which is actually received by the assessee for transfer of rights in the property. In our opinion, in the given circumstances of the case, for the purpose of computation of the capital gain as laid down in section 48 of the Act, the security deposit received has been rightly treated by the Assessing Officer as full value consideration received as a result of transfer of the capital asset. (ITA No.4038/Del/2013, dt. 12.10.2018)(AY. 2006-07)
DCIT v. Moni Kumar Subha (Delhi)(Trib),www.itatoline.org
S. 50C : Capital gains-Full value of consideration- Stamp valuation- Form v/s Substance -Security deposit was rightly apportioned between short term and long term capital gains- Interest-free security deposit cannot be treated as ‘full value of consideration- The amendment to include assessable value as full value consideration was inserted w.e.f. 01/10/2009 and, thus, the value assessable as per stamp value authority cannot be applied for taking full value consideration of the property for the year under consideration. Accordingly the question of referring the matter to the Valuation Officer in terms of section 50C(2) also does not arise. [S. 2(14, 45 ]