It is further provided that where the assessee claims that the value adopted or assessed for stamp duty purposes exceeds the fair market value of the property as on the date of transfer and he has not disputed the value so adopted or assessed in any appeal or revision or reference before any authority or Court, the Assessing Officer may refer the valuation of the relevant asset to a Valuation Officer in accordance with Section 55A of the Income Tax Act. If the fair market value determined by the Valuation Officer is less than the value adopted for stamp duty purposes, the Assessing Officer may take such fair market value to be the full value of consideration.
However, if the fair market determined by the Valuation Officer is more than the value adopted or assessed for stamp duty purposes, the Assessing Officer would not adopt such fair market value and would take the full value of consideration to be the value adopted or assessed for stamp duty purposes.
It is also provided that if the value adopted or assessed for stamp duty purposes is revised in any appeal, revision or reference, the assessment made would be amended to re-compute the capital gains by taking the revised value as the full value of consideration.
As per the Finance (No. 2) Act 2009 w.e.f. the financial year 2009-2010 in the above definition for the word “assessed” the words “assessed or assessable” have been substituted. Merely with the change of this word there would arise more responsibility on the tax payers to correctly compute the capital gains tax liability.
As a result of this amendment, the transactions which are not registered with the stamp duty valuation authority would also be covered. Thus, where the property transactions are undertaken through power of attorney or agreement to sell, then such transactions would also be covered within the ambit of Section 50C of the Income Tax Act, 1961. |