Taxpayer Denied Section 54B Deduction for Not Claiming When Filing; Misunderstood Agricultural Land as Non-Capital Asset.

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....Deduction u/s.54B - Claim denied which was not claimed by the assessee while filing the return - The assessee at the time of filing of his returns of income u/s. 139(1) and u/s 148 of the Act had remained under a bonfaide belief that as the agricultural land in question i.e at Village Dharampura was situated beyond the municipal limits, and thus not a “capital asset‟, therefore, the gain on transfer of the same was not exigible to tax under the Act. Accordingly, backed by his aforesaid conviction, the assessee in our considered view had no occasion to have raised in his aforesaid returns of income filed u/s 139(1) and u/s 148 of the Act a claim for deduction u/s 54B w.r.t the investment that was made by him towards purchase of new agricultural lands. - AT....