Income Tax Department

Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Skip to main content
Text Size
Saturation
Help

Section 47

Transactions not regarded as transfer

Section

Section Number

47

Chapter

CHAPTER IV - COMPUTATION OF TOTAL INCOME

Act

Income-tax Act, 1961

Year

1996

Transactions not regarded as transfer

Transactions not regarded as transfer
Transactions not regarded as transfer.
97a 47.             Nothing contained in section 45 shall apply to the fol­lowing transfers:—
            ( i)        any distribution of capital assets on the total or par­tial partition of a Hindu undivided family;
            ( ii)        98[ ***]
            ( iii)      any transfer of capital asset under a gist or Will or an irrevocable trust;
            ( iv)      any transfer of a capital asset by a company to its subsidiary company, if—
            ( a)       the parent company or its nominees hold the whole of the share capital of the subsidiary company, and
            ( b)       the subsidiary company is an Indian company;
             99 [(v)  any transfer of a capital asset by a subsidiary company to the holding company, if—
            ( a)       the whole of the share capital of the subsidiary compa­ny is held by the holding company, and
            ( b)       the holding company is an Indian company:]
                         1 [Provided that nothing contained in clause (iv) or clause (v) shall apply to the transfer of a capital asset made after the 29th day of February, 1988, as stock-in-trade;]
             2 [(vi)   any transfer, in a scheme of amalgamation, of capital asset by the amalgamating company to the amalgamated company if the amalgamated company is an Indian company;]
             3 [(via) any transfer, in a scheme of amalgamation, of a capital asset being a share or shares held in an Indian company, by the amalgamating foreign company to the amalgamated foreign company, if—
            ( a)       at least twenty-five per cent of the shareholders of the amalgamating foreign company continue to remain shareholders of the amalgamated foreign company, and
            ( b)       such transfer does not attract tax on capital gains in the country, in which the amalgamating company is incorporated;
            ( vii)     any transfer by a shareholder, in a scheme of amalgamation, of a capital asset being a share or shares held by him in the amalgamating company, if—
            ( a)       the transfer is made in consideration of the allotment to him of any share or shares in the amalgamated company, and
            ( b)       the amalgamated company is an Indian company;
             4 [(viia)            any transfer of a capital asset, being bonds or shares referred to in sub-section (1) of section 115AC, made outside India by a non-resident to another non-resident;]
             5 [(viii) any transfer of agricultural land in India effect­ed before the 1st day of March, 1970;]
             6 [(ix)   any transfer of a capital asset, being any work of art, archaeological, scientific or art collection, book manu­script, drawing, painting, photograph or print, to the Government or a University or the National Museum, National Art Gallery, National Archives or any such other public museum or institution as may be notified 7 by the Central Government in the Official Gazette to be of national importance or to be of renown through­out any State or States.
                         Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, "University" means a University established or incorporated by or under a Central, State or Provincial Act and includes an institution declared under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), to be a University for the purposes of that Act;]
             8 [(x)    any transfer by way of conversion of 9[bonds or] debentures, debenture-stock or deposit certificates in any from, of a company into shares or debentures of that company.]

Footnotes