No notional income for house property held as stock-in-trade w.e.f AY 2018-19

By | February 20, 2018
(Last Updated On: February 20, 2018)

CIRCULAR No. 2/2018 Dated 15.02.2018

17. No notional income for house property held as stock-in-trade.

17.1 Section 23 of the Income-tax Act provides for the manner of determination of annual value of house property.

17.2 Considering the business exigencies in case of real estate developers, the said section has been amended to provide that where the house property consisting of any building and land appurtenant thereto is held as stock-in-trade and the property or any part of the property is not let during the whole or any part of the previous year, the annual value of such property or part of the property, for the period up to one year from the end of the financial year in which the certificate of completion of construction of the property is obtained from the competent authority, shall be taken to be nil.

17.3 Applicability: This amendment takes effect from 1st April, 2018 and will, accordingly apply from assessment year 2018-19 and subsequent years.

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