Tax questions

Question regarding GST and Income tax for freelancers working for international clients

I am a freelancer and I have multiple streams of income: 1) I get paid for designing websites for international clients. I receive money on paypal. 2) I am also working as a virtual assistant for an international client and receive payment on paypal. 3) I have a print-on-demand store on teespring and they pay me through paypal. Basically what happens in this type of income is that th...

JDA related - all taxes

Base Info: Landowners: 3 brothers, 2 are Indian citizen one is foreign citizen Land in Metro city: 10000 SFT, inherited by all brothers from parents who expired 20 years ago Land original Purchasse price: Unknown, but very low. JDA Agreement likely to be signed in June 2021 Total estimated value of land @ Rs 20 Lacs per 1000 sft = 2 Crores (20 lacs x 10000 sft) Total Estimated saleabl...

Capital Gains Tax ( sale of house property)

A flat was booked by me in Nov 2006 and a buyer agreement was executed. As per the agreement the builder was to deliver the flat within 36 months.The payment was linked to construction. But the offer of posession was made in october 2016 after receipt of OC from the authorities. Because o considerable delay a case was filed in the consumer court in 2014 demanding penalty as per the agreement...

Vsvs query

A closely held assessee company received share premium during AY2009-10. Its return was processed u/s 143(1). Later in 2015, AO reopened assessment u/s 147. Made addition of Rs.2 crore. CIT(A) confirmed the addition in 2016. In 2nd appeal,assessee challenged addition u/s 68. During hearing before itat, assessee also took additional ground for the first time that notice u/s 148 lacks rea...

Tds

We are NRI and sold our apartment which was more than Rs 2 cr. The deal was signed in End Nov’20 It was sold to a company which decided to take a Bank Loan. They deducted TDS with details as below :- 1. 1% under section 194 2. 22.92% under section 195 This was a mistake but they advised will rectify this issue with the IT department and will notify us so we donot face any issue when we will ...

Tds on buying nri property

I am planning to buy a property from an NRI seller. The consideration amount is INR 50,01,000/-. Seller bought property in 2013 and is selling it now. NRI seller does not intend to avail benefits of any lower TDS. The property will be registered in my wife's name (to save registration charges @ 1% of the consideration). My questions are: 1) What will be the TDS % rate applicable my payment? 2) ...

Sale of joint property...Splitting of Capital Gains

BACKGROUND: 1. Husband bought a flat in 2005 in Gurgaon with 100% own funds. 2. The flat was then registered jointly in Husband’s plus Wife’s name. 3. From 2011, the flat was rented out…..Even though the flat was in joint name, all the rent was included in Husband’s tax return every month. This was done since the flat was bought with only husband’s own money. Rent in wife’s name would have...

Capital Gains Tax or Business Income on Sale of Property

My Father Purchased a Plot of 5360 Sq.ft in 1995 and made a registered Sale deed on to my name in 06.10.2015. In the Sale Deed of 06.10.2015, 1.26 Crore was the sale amount mentioned in the Sale Deed. However, there was no real money involved as it was a transaction between Father and Son. On 15.12.2017, i have entered in to JDA with a builder and have got 6 flats as part of my share and sol...

Capital Gain claim on selling joint property

I purchased a residential property jointly for earning rental income in 2015. My sister is a joint owner in this property. The property purchase was funded by my Dad who is no more now. Since 2016 we are getting rental income and I am managing the property. For tax purpose, the 100% rental income from this property is declared in my ITR alone for last 3 years since I have been using the entire...

Purchased property under sarfaesi act

Hello, I purchased a property from SBI at Rs 90 Lakh and thereafter Sale Certificate was issue to me under SARFAESI Act. I duly paid the stamp duty and registered the property at a market value that is Rs 1.45 cr as on 2018. In the mean time I also paid TDS of 1% that is Rs 90000. Now I receive notice from Income Tax, stating that I need to pay tax as my purchase price is less than market...

Concerns in Buying a new house

Good day. I sold my 1Bhk flat post 14 years of occupation and brought a 3BHK flat in an under construction property in 2014 on the 42nd floor taking care that the money taxable under capital gains Is invested completely into the new property. During sale the verbal agreement was that the possession would be in August 2017, however when agreement with builder was finally done in 2016 the possess...

House property

Property (one) Bearing Municipal No. 60 (Residential House, in occupation of the owner) No portion of it has been let-out or no financial benefit was derived Property (Two) Bearing Municipal No. 7/201/2-3 which consists as following: Residential Portion (House) Ist Floor, Bearing Municipal No. 7/201(in occupation of the owners) No portion of it has been let-out or no financial benefit was d...

GST for turn over > 20lacs where income is from non-Indian clients

Hi, I have a web design agency in Rajkot, Gujarat. I have a question related to GST. I know that I don't need a GST number if my annual turn over is less than 20lacs. I'm expecting to reach turn over 20 lacs this year and here is my situation: 1. It is a proprietary firm. 2. I don't have GST number yet. I'm filing regular income tax returns and also pay advanced tax. 3. All my income is...

New ppf account and covid guidelines from govt

In March, 2020 because of the COVID pandemic and end of financial year, Ministry of Finance declared that the tax savings for the FY 2019-2020 can be done till 30th June, 2020 w.r.t PPF accounts and other savings instruments. Here is the update from the Income Tax department on this - twitter.com/FinMinIndia/status/[deleted] Based on the above guidelines, I opened a new PPF account on 30th ...

Compensation as interest ordered by NCDRC

Booked a flat with a builder in 2010 and he failed to deliver the flat and offered possession after 6-7 years. We had approached the NCDRC and we opted for refund and NCDRC ordered in 2018, Refund of the entire amount with compensation in the form of simple interest @11 (compensation in the form of simple interest ). Is the interest part which is as compensation in this case taxable. We have...

Gst

Hello, I live in Bangalore and I am have started a dropshipping business business from my own website www.myWebStoreShopping.com. My target customers are from across the globe, including India. And once the customer places an order from my website I forward that order to my suppliers based in China who then ships the order directly to my customer irrespective of the location. (international c...

TDS applicability for Property Assignment Case

Case: 1. I (buyer) am buying a ready-to-move apartment in bangalore from seller (Cost excluding registration - 78L) 2. Seller had sales & Construction agreement for this property with builder when it was under construction in Mar-2016 (Sales Agreement - 20L Approx. & Construction Agreement - 60L Approx.). He has deducted 1% TDS for the same against builder. 3. There is only sales & construc...

Foreign Tax Credit for US Income and Tax - Federal and State.

I have foreign income from US via salary and my tax got deducted in US. I stayed in India for more than 182 days , so I am resident. I need to file ITR with Resident Status. While calculation of US tax credit can be consider the Federal and State Taxes deducted and get credit for them in India? I see some confusion in the rules regarding the Tax credit for State Taxes in United states...

Nri

I’m an employee of a Public Sector Undertaking in India and on foreign assignment since 31st March, 2017 NRI and stayed abroad for more than 182 days in FY 2018-19/AY 2019-20 and not stayed in India for more than 30 days at a stretch in India (Working abroad on 60 days duty and 30 days off pattern) I’m receiving my monthly salary abroad in foreign currency. As part of my salary I’ve received E...

Itr form applicable

I was a proposal engineer working in the marketing division of a private firm which undertakes execution of turnkey mineral processing projects. I used to do necessary proposal engineering and BOQ/Cost estimation while quoting for such projects during tendering stage. I superannuated in 2016 but was contracted by my company in 2018-19 as a consultant, to do the same proposal engineering work ...