CA. Naresh Jakhotia

TAX TALK BY CA. NARESH JAKHOTIA (Chartered Accountant) “TAXABILITY OF AMOUNT FORFEITED?” Query 1] My nature of business is to carry on business of acquiring, establishing, Running & maintenance of Hospital & Clinic Research Institutes. I want to know the treatment of the expenditure for Web designing, Domain Name & Space incurred before Incorporation. Can it be treated as Preliminary Expenses? Confusion is arising as this particular expenditure is not specified in Income Tax Act in Section 35D. [ash_deo123@rediffmail.com] Opinion: Conceptually, there is a difference in the concept of preliminary expenses under companies Act vis a vis Income Tax Act. Section 35D of the I.T. Act -1961 clearly and specifically mentions the expenditure to be included in preliminary expenditure. The I-T Act provides for amortization of preliminary expenses in 5 equal installments. The expenses referred to in your query doesn’t form the part of preliminary expenses for the purpose of Section 35D ...

TAX TALK BY CA. NARESH JAKHOTIA (Chartered Accountant) “SET OFF AND CARRY FORWARD OF CAPITAL GAIN LOSS” Query 1] Loss on Sale of shares( held for less than 12 months) i. e. short-term capital loss can de adjusted only against short term capital gains on sale of shares. If net balance is profit, the tax is required to be paid. Any option to save tax? If there is excess loss whether it is carried forward & can be set off against short term/long term capital gains for next year. Please clarify. For long term capital gains on sale of shares (held for more than 12 months), whether long term capital loss (on sale of share) can be set off? Any avenues to save such tax. Please guide. [ nayan.lagad@cosmosbank.in ] Opinion: “Capital gain” constitutes a separate class in itself in the I.T. Act, 1961 for taxability and set off provision. The basic rules are: -i) Losses under the head “Capital gains” cannot be set off against income under other heads of income (like salary income etc)ii) Shor...

TAX TALK BY CA. NARESH JAKHOTIA (Chartered Accountant) “CHANGES IN TDS RATES……” Query 1] Sir, I am farmer. I produce vegetables (Tomato, Lauki, Karela, Khira, Papita, Bandi, Gobi) in 20 Acres of land. My farm is well equipped with DRIP Irrigation system. I have availed Rs. 5.00 Lacs loan facility from SBI. My income from this activity in the last year (i.e., from 01-06-2008 to 30-05-2009) was Rs. 5,00,000/-. The annual income normally varies from Rs. 4 Lacs to Rs. 7 Lacs. Total sales varies from RS. 20 Lacs to Rs. 30 Lacs and savings after all expenses ranges from Rs. 4 to Rs. 7 Lacs as mentioned above. I have never filed any income-tax return so far. Please advice as to whether: 1. should I file income-tax return? 2. I propose to purchase a house in Durg city costing Rs. 15 Lacs. What account or papers I should keep? [Narayan Chawde, Durg] Opinion: Plainly & simply speaking, filing the return of income is mandatory for persons who have TAXABLE income above basic exemption limit....