Hi mayank,
correctly said by you regarding personal effects......
Dear Dhiraj, you have said something on first page, but its not proven bhai.....
I am telling you a story.. you are free to yawn off at any point, or listen to the end...
There are many cases where we cannot charge capital gains cos we simply cannot determine COST OF ACQUISITION... Amendments have come swooping one after the other to say that "the cost f this shall be determined thus", or "the cost of such and such is nil"........ most of these amendments came cos, where the mechanism of sec 45 and 48 fails, it cannot be charged as IFOS..... That is the gist of these judgements
For eg: Cost of goodwill.. how to determine.... did my employee's smile add value to customers and enhance my goodwill? Was it the nice set up that i have which created my goodwill? I dont know, the assessee said, and AO was told that unless cost can be determined there cannot be assessment cos the mechanism fails.. so legislature changed sec 55 and said it is nil... so we tax it as capital gains now that there is a mechanism....
To determine income, we need to consider the benefit lost as well, not just the benefit gained.... it is the net of these, which constitutes income.... That is the principle in sec 57 as well.
Here can we find what is the benefit lost by the person? What has he foregone, what has he gained?Over how many assessment years is he gaining or losing his benefits? Hence, what constitutes his income, when?
How can IFOS be computed in such a case?
Hence dhiraj bhai, capital receipt not chargeable to tax......