Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Revenue

Central Board of Direct Taxes

New Delhi, 24th April, 2018

PRESS RELEASE

Notification under section 112A as inserted by Finance Act, 2018 – Seeking comments of stakeholders

Finance Act, 2018 has withdrawn the exemption under clause (38) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) and has introduced a new section 112A in the Act, to provide that long term capital gains arising from transfer of a long-term capital asset being an equity share in a company or a unit of an equity oriented fund or a unit of a business trust shall be taxed at 10 per cent of such capital gains exceeding one lakh rupees. The said section, inter alia, provides that the provisions of the section shall apply to the capital gains arising from a transfer of long-term capital asset being an equity share in a company, only if securities transaction tax (STT) has been paid on acquisition and transfer of such capital asset.

However, to provide the applicability of the tax regime under section 112A of the Act to genuine cases where the STT could not have been paid, it has also been provided in sub-section (4) of section 112A of the Act that the Central Government may specify, by notification, the nature of acquisitions in respect of which the requirement of payment of STT shall not apply in the case of acquisition of equity share in a company.

In order to have wider consultation in this matter, the draft of notification proposed to be issued under section 112A (4) of the Act has been uploaded on www.incometaxindia.gov.in. Stakeholders are requested to submit their comments/ suggestions on the draft notification by 30th April, 2018 at the e-mail address [email protected].

(Surabhi Ahluwalia)

Commissioner of Income Tax

(Media & Technical Policy)

Official Spokesperson, CBDT.

Long-term capital gains taxation: draft notification proposes STT exceptions for certain acquisitions and invites stakeholder comments. The Finance Act, 2018 conditions concessional treatment of long-term capital gains on payment of securities transaction tax at acquisition and transfer for equity shares, equity oriented fund units, and business trust units. Sub section (4) empowers the Central Government to notify categories of acquisitions exempted from the STT payment requirement, and a draft notification proposing such exceptions has been published for stakeholder comments.