Section 56(2)(vii)(c) of Income Tax Act: No Extra Tax on Shares Allotted Below Market Rate to Specific Shareholder.

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....Addition u/s 56(2)(vii)(c)(ii) - allotment of shares to assessee shareholder at a value lower - whether Tax to be paid by the shareholders or the company? - The shares have been allotted on 31.03.2014 to the assessee instead of allotting shares to all the existing shareholders and thus even if it is assumed that the shareholders to whom shares were not allotted have given up their right of allotment in shares to other shareholders, it is a case of transfer of right in shares by one relative to another relative and therefore also section 56(2)(vii)(c) would not get attracted. - AT....