Facts of the Case:
-Assessee is Non resident individual
-Converted Shares held as personal Investment in Stock In Trade w.e.f 01.04.05
-Entire Shares sold in F.Y.05-06 after holding shares for total peiod of more than ONE Year
- Sale of Shares were made into market and therefore suffered STT
-Assessee claimed the gain as exempted u/s 10(38)
-AO disallowed such exemption
-CIT (A) upheld the order of AO
Tribunal Decision:
Relevant extracts of the said descision is as under
16. A cumulative reading of the aforesaid provisions, in our mind, makes it clear that as far as the benefit of Section 10(38) is concerned, the assessee shall not be eligible for this benefit at the first stage of chargeability of capital gains because the deemed sale is the point of conversion into stock-in-trade which had not suffered STT. Further, with regards to the second part of the transaction, the assessee is not eligible for benefit under Section 10(38) because the second part of the transaction is purely a business transaction and provisions of Section 10(38) are applicable only in terms of long term capital assets. In our view, these provisions should be read in this manner and there can be no confusion or two opinions about the scheme of the provisions of conversion of capital asset into stock-in-trade as also the liability towards the capital gains tax on sale of shares held as capital asset which has suffered STT. Nowhere on the date of actual sale, the assessee was holding the impugned securities as a part of capital asset. They have already become the stock-in-trade of the business. So, we do not agree with the assessee as regards the total exemption from capital gains tax in respect of the capital assets which were converted into stock-in-trade as on 1st April, 2005 merely because on the date of sale such stock-in-trade the assessee was required to pay STT on them. We agree with the departmental stand in respect of this issue as we do not find any merit in such contentions of the assessee.
-Assessee is Non resident individual
-Converted Shares held as personal Investment in Stock In Trade w.e.f 01.04.05
-Entire Shares sold in F.Y.05-06 after holding shares for total peiod of more than ONE Year
- Sale of Shares were made into market and therefore suffered STT
-Assessee claimed the gain as exempted u/s 10(38)
-AO disallowed such exemption
-CIT (A) upheld the order of AO
Tribunal Decision:
Relevant extracts of the said descision is as under
16. A cumulative reading of the aforesaid provisions, in our mind, makes it clear that as far as the benefit of Section 10(38) is concerned, the assessee shall not be eligible for this benefit at the first stage of chargeability of capital gains because the deemed sale is the point of conversion into stock-in-trade which had not suffered STT. Further, with regards to the second part of the transaction, the assessee is not eligible for benefit under Section 10(38) because the second part of the transaction is purely a business transaction and provisions of Section 10(38) are applicable only in terms of long term capital assets. In our view, these provisions should be read in this manner and there can be no confusion or two opinions about the scheme of the provisions of conversion of capital asset into stock-in-trade as also the liability towards the capital gains tax on sale of shares held as capital asset which has suffered STT. Nowhere on the date of actual sale, the assessee was holding the impugned securities as a part of capital asset. They have already become the stock-in-trade of the business. So, we do not agree with the assessee as regards the total exemption from capital gains tax in respect of the capital assets which were converted into stock-in-trade as on 1st April, 2005 merely because on the date of sale such stock-in-trade the assessee was required to pay STT on them. We agree with the departmental stand in respect of this issue as we do not find any merit in such contentions of the assessee.
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