No capital gains tax if flat’s sale price matches cost: ITAT
MUMBAI: The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has determined that capital gains tax cannot be applied when the sale price of a property matches its purchase price, despite initial disagreements from the I-T officer due to documentation issues. In a recent decision, the Mumbai bench of the tribunal supported the appeal from taxpayer Kamini V, reversing a Rs 42.5 lakh addition made by the tax department under ‘short-term capital gains’ for the fiscal year 2015-16. The case involved a jointly owned residential property bought for Rs 85 lakh and sold two years later for the same amount. The I-T officer…