Trust legal ownership bars house-property exemption for a beneficiary's life interest under the wealth tax framework. The Board instructed that legal ownership of trust property vests in trustees, so a beneficiary's life interest in a trust-held house does not constitute ownership and therefore the house-property exemption under the Wealth-tax Act is not allowable for that life interest.
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Trust legal ownership bars house-property exemption for a beneficiary's life interest under the wealth tax framework.
The Board instructed that legal ownership of trust property vests in trustees, so a beneficiary's life interest in a trust-held house does not constitute ownership and therefore the house-property exemption under the Wealth-tax Act is not allowable for that life interest.
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