According to civil laws, can a HUF gift to anybody ?
A non relative (say HUF ) wishes to gift a substential amount to a foreign citizen of Indian origin (HUF KARTA'S cousin).
What are Income Tax, Gift Tax & FERA implications ?
A.K.Agrawal (Investments & Finance) (132 Points)
06 July 2012According to civil laws, can a HUF gift to anybody ?
A non relative (say HUF ) wishes to gift a substential amount to a foreign citizen of Indian origin (HUF KARTA'S cousin).
What are Income Tax, Gift Tax & FERA implications ?
Saurabh Maheshwari
(B.com,ACA)
(5923 Points)
Replied 06 July 2012
Gift tax is no more. Under Income tax the gift made by any person to Non residents are not taxable.FEMA implications no idea.
Niraj K Shah
(Associate in Leading Tax firm)
(128 Points)
Replied 06 July 2012
As per Schedule III of FEMA restricts Gift/ Donation in excess of USD 5000 outside India.
Hence any gift above 5000 USD outside India required RBI's prior permission.
However under LRS( Liberalised Remittance Scheme) only a resident Individual of India can remit money upto 2,00,000 USD without RBI's prior approval outside India.
Hence in your case since it is HUF which is remitting money by way of gift outside India it requires RBI's prior permission for any sum of money exceeding 5000 USD.
A.K.Agrawal
(Investments & Finance)
(132 Points)
Replied 06 July 2012
Thanx for reply.
You mean LRS is applicable for individuals, & not for other entities like HUF in this case.!!
But Ist point is whether a HUF can give a gift of say 30 L INR to any body ?
Niraj K Shah
(Associate in Leading Tax firm)
(128 Points)
Replied 06 July 2012
I have not seen rider in any law which prohibit HUF to give gift to anybody. HUF can give gift to anyone.
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