Is lease paid for redevelopment initiatives taxed?
Construction work is occurring at a delicate tempo in roughly 11,125 developing web sites in Mumbai for the time being. An enormous chunk of this pertains to redevelopment initiatives— the renovation of an current property, residential or industrial, for diverse causes. To make sure, such initiatives are being undertaken in several components of the nation as correctly. To facilitate redevelopment and to compensate flat homeowners for the hardship confronted by them all through such work, a developer may provide them compensation inside the kind of lease to ensure varied lodging all through the problem. This compensation would possibly each be paid in lump sum or as a month-to-month payout. Should this amount be dealt with by the recipient as taxable income?
Let us take the hypothetical occasion of Ravi, who resides in a flat at Shreeji Co-operative Society Ltd. The society decides to go for redevelopment and arms the problem to, say, builder A. The latter offers varied lodging charges of ₹20,000 per thirty days to Ravi. Ravi shifts to a special flat, nevertheless the lease proper right here is ₹18,000. Should the steadiness ₹2,000 per thirty days be added to his taxable income? Let us ponder one different event. Builder A offers varied lodging charges and hardship allowance to Varsha, who moreover resides within the an identical society, inside the kind of a lump sum amount of ₹10 lakh. Varsha, nonetheless, strikes to her dad and mother‘ flat and would not utilise the amount for the aforesaid objective. What may very well be the tax implication for Varsha?
As per the Income Tax Act, all revenue receipts and positive capital receipts significantly talked about throughout the Act are taxable. Hence, we have now to first contemplate whether or not or not this compensation for alternate lodging, hardship allowance, and so forth. is a revenue or a capital receipt beneath income tax authorized pointers.
As the property has been given for redevelopment, compensation is paid by the builder on account of the hardship confronted by the flat proprietor due to the displacement of its occupants. The talked about payment is throughout the nature of hardship allowance/rehabilitation allowance. In such a state of affairs, the compensation acquired by the assessee in course of displacement by the use of the occasion settlement simply is not a revenue receipt. It constitutes capital receipt and subsequently simply is not liable to tax. This understanding has been confirmed by a modern order by the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) – Mumbai throughout the case of Ajay Parasmal Kothari. Thus, throughout the occasion above, Ravi will not be going to have in order so as to add the lease acquired or any part of it to his taxable income. Irrespective of the actual fact whether or not or not it was utilised for the goal of alternate lodging or not, will most likely be dealt with as capital receipt and is thus not taxable. For the an identical goal, Varsha moreover will not be going to ought to pay any tax on the lump sum amount acquired from the builder.
Let’s take one different occasion. Rama has a industrial retailer at Ramesh Co-operative Society. The co-operative society opts for redevelopment with builder B. The latter offers varied lodging charges and hardship allowance lumpsum of ₹20 lakh to Rama. Should this be added to Rama’s taxable income? Similarly, Pammi had given her flat on the an identical society on lease. Builder B offers varied month-to-month lodging charges and hardship allowance of ₹20,000. Should Pammi pay tax on this amount?
Compensation paid by the builder on account of hardship confronted by the proprietor of a property as a consequence of displacement of the occupants, alternate lodging, and so forth., is throughout the nature of capital receipt. So, every Rama and Pammi will not be going to ought to pay any tax on the lump sum or month-to-month amount acquired from the builder.
As a corollary to the most recent judgement by ITAT throughout the case of Ajay Kothari, we are going to conclude that no matter the actual fact whether or not or not the property is residential, industrial, self-occupied or let loose, will most likely be dealt with as capital receipt and thus not taxable. However, it’s a grey house that the tax assessing officer can drawback throughout the courts.
Nitesh Buddhadev is the founding father of Nimit Consultancy.
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