Budget 2021-22 + FINANCE Bill, 2021

Incentives for affordable rental housing

The existing provision of the section 80-IBA of the Act provides that where the gross total income of an assessee includes any profits and gains derived from the business of developing and building affordable housing project, there shall, subject to certain conditions specified therein, be allowed a deduction of an amount equal to hundred per cent. of the profits and gains derived from such business. One of the conditions is that the project is approved by the competent authority after the 1st day of June 2016 but on or before the 31st day of March 2021.

To help migrant labourers and to promote affordable rental, it is proposed to allow deduction under section 80-IBA of the Act also to such rental housing project which is notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette and fulfils such conditions as specified in the said notification.

Further, it is also proposed that the outer time limit for 31st March 2021 in this section for getting the affordable housing project approved be extended to 31st March 2022 and same outer time limit be also provided for the proposed affordable rental housing project.

This amendment will take effect from 1st April, 2022 and will accordingly apply to the assessment year 2022-23 and subsequent assessment years.

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Budget 2021-22 + FINANCE Bill, 2021

Affordable rental housing deduction expanded to include government notified rental projects, and time limit for approvals extended. The deduction equal to one hundred percent of profits and gains from the qualifying housing business is extended to include rental housing projects notified by the Central Government that meet conditions in that notification, and the outer time limit for project approval determining eligibility is extended so that the same temporal cut-off applies to these affordable rental housing projects.