Assessee is in share trading activity and had returned short-term capital gain. Assessing Officer treated income from trading activity of shares as business income of assessee on ground that in preceding year, assessee had declared profit from share trading activity as business and only a small portion was returned as short-term capital gain. Commissioner (Appeals) deleted addition holding that assessee had been investing in share market for more than 10 years, and declaring income therefrom under head capital gains. He held that assessee had held shares as investment and not as stock-in-trade which was accepted by Assessing Officer. He held that Assessing Officer had merely gone on basis of nomenclature given in accounts to determine nature of income. Tribunal held that income earned therefrom had been rightly returned by assessee under head capital gains, and there was no case with Assessing Officer for treating same as income from business and profession. (AY. 2016-17)
ITO v. Jhaveri Sandeep Bipinchandra (HUF) (2024) 207 ITD 622 (Ahd) (Trib.)
S. 45 : Capital gains-Share transactions-Income shown as business income in preceding year-Assessable as capital gains.[S.28(i)]
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