Clause - 025 - Amendment of section 49.

THE FINANCE BILL, 2017

Clause 25 of the Bill seeks to amend section 49 of the Income-tax Act relating to cost with reference to certain modes of acquisition.

It is proposed to amend the said section by insertion of a new sub-section so as to provide that where the capital gain arises from the transfer of an asset, being the asset held by a trust or an institution in respect of which accreted income has been computed, and the tax has been paid thereon in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XIIEB, the cost of acquisition of such asset shall be deemed to be the fair market value of the asset which has been taken into account for computation of accreted income as on the specified date referred to in sub-section (2) of section 115TD.

The proposed amendment is consequential in nature.

This amendment will take effect retrospectively from 1st June, 2016.