Assessees Seema Bhattacharya and Jharna Bhattacharga were wives of kartas Shri Baskar Bhatachrya (Husband of JB) Shankar Bhatachrya (Husband of SB) and who were brothers. Assessees sold their agricultural land and purchased an immovable property from sale consideration. Assessee Jharna Bhattacharga claimed that land sold belonged to HUF. Assessing Officer denied the claim and regarded capital gain as assessable in hands of assessee as an individual. Commissioner (Appeals) held that no capital gain could arise in hands of assessee as same was property of respective HUFs. On appeal the Tribunal held that land was originally held by father of kartas which was divided into three parts and there was nothing to show that income from said property was being returned as family income. Merely because land was divided, with a view to avoid family dispute, by father between himself and his two sons, would not by itself make it a family property. Capital gains was rightly assessed as an individual property. (AY. 2009-10)
ITO v. Seema Bhattacharya (2022) 197 ITD 241 (Jabalpur) (Trib.)
S. 45 : Capital gains-Division of property to avoid family dispute-Capital gains is taxable in the hands of Individual and not HUF. [S. 4, 171]