Section 79 — Fair Market Value for Transfer of Unquoted
Shares: Analysis with Case LawsSection AnalysisSection 79 is the equity-share counterpart to Section 78's
stamp-duty valuation rule for land/buildings (Part 1, ...
Section 69 — Capital Gains on Buy-Back of
Shares: Complete Analysis with Recent RulingsSection AnalysisSection 69 governs the tax treatment when a company buys
back its own shares or specified securities from shareho...
Section 68 — Distribution of Assets on
Company Liquidation: Complete Case Law AnalysisSection AnalysisSection 68 governs the tax treatment when a company in
liquidation distributes its assets to shareholders — a tw...
: Sections 74–75 — Capital Gains on Depreciable Assets
& the "Block of Assets" ConceptSection AnalysisSections 74 and 75 carve out a special computation regime
for assets on which depreciation has been claimed ...
Firm-Partner Transactions — Admission,
Retirement & Dissolution: The Complete Case Law AnalysisSection AnalysisTransactions between a firm and its partners — admission of
a new partner with capital contribution...
Section 77 — Slump Sale Taxation: The Net
Worth Method ExplainedSection AnalysisSection 77 governs the taxation of a slump sale — the
transfer of one or more entire business undertakings for a lump-sum
considerati...
Section 76 — Capital Gains on Market Linked
Debentures & Specified Mutual FundsSection AnalysisSection 76 addresses a category of investment product that
was specifically carved out of the general (often more fav...
Section 73 — Cost of Acquisition for Gifted, Inherited
& Specially-Acquired AssetsSection AnalysisSection 73 addresses a fundamental question: what is the
"cost of acquisition" when an asset wasn't purchased in t...
Capital Gains Exemptions on Agricultural
Land, Compulsory Acquisition & Industrial Relocation (Sections 83, 84, 87
& 88) — Case Law AnalysisSection AnalysisThis final article in the series covers four related...
Section 72 — Mode of Computation of Capital Gains: The
Complete Formula ExplainedSection AnalysisSection 72 lays down the actual computation formula for
capital gains, carried forward from Section 48 of the 1961 Act:...