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Sanjeev Govila

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Colonel Sanjeev Govila (retd) is the founder of Hum Fauji Initiatives, a financial planning company dedicated to armed forces officers and their families.

He has over 12 years of experience in financial planning and is a SEBI certified registered investment advisor; he is also accredited with AMFI and IRDA.... more

Answered on Feb 17, 2023

Asked by Anonymous - Feb 17, 2023
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I bought a Flat, with JOINT ownership with my wife, in December, 2021. The Conveyance Deed (amounting Rs.93.60 Lakh) was got executed & registered by the Builder in our favour in May, 2022. This Flat was earlier sold by the Builder to another person but the earlier owner never got executed/registered the conveyance deed and transfered/surrendered back the ownership on settlement of outstanding loan etc. by us, through finance by Bank, in December, 2021. We both are repaying the EMI for this joint property. Now, I have soldout my another house property (built in 2004 and was in single ownership in my name and not jointly with wife) in February, 2023 in Rs.90.00 lakh. Kindly let me know whether the capital gain of property sold by me can be adjusted against the property bought in JOINT TITLE / OWNERSHIP with wife.Thanks and Regards.
Ans: The provisions of Section 54 of Income Tax Act, which allows you to buy a residential property earlier and then sell some other residential property and adjust the LTCG (Long Term Capital Gains) of the latter into the former, is available only if the gap between the two transactions is One year or less.

In your case, you have written that you ‘bought’ the house in Dec 2021, and then ‘Conveyance Deed’ was done in May 2022. This is confusing since the applicability of Section 54 of Income Tax Act is specifically with ‘possession’ of the house.

If you got possession of the house in Dec 21, then the gap between possession of new house and sale of old house is more than One year and hence you cannot adjust the LTCG of the two properties.

If you got the possession of the new house in May 2022, then the Section 54 of Income Tax Act is applicable to you. Since the new house has been jointly bought and both of you have paid for it, then the LTCG of the sold house will be adjusted to the extent of your share in the newly bought house. If it gets fully adjusted, well-and-good. If not, then you will have to exercise other options (buy a property, buy 54EC bonds or pay the tax) as per Section 54.
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Answered on Feb 08, 2023

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Presumptive Tax Scheme for FnO Traders. I read online that advance tax needs to be deposited in one Installment ONLY and not necessary to follow the 4 deadline of advance tax. If someone deposits advance tax in more than one installment. Does it makes the person ineligible to opt for Presumptive scheme ? Is there eligibility based on number of times the advance tax is deposited?
Ans: Presumptive tax scheme and payment of advance tax are two separate issues.
Whether you want presumptive taxation or not depends on how much is your F&O turnover and if audit is not compulsory for you, whether you’re OK with being subjected to audit or not.
Advance Tax payment is only concerned with how you pay the tax that is due to be paid by you.

If you are carrying on F&O trading, you have to get your accounts audited if the turnover exceeds Rs 10 crore (the digital transactions are 95% or more). You can opt for a presumptive taxation scheme when turnover does not exceed Rs 2 crores and declare your taxable income at 6% of the total F&O turnover. Tax audit becomes mandatory if you opt for a presumptive scheme of taxation and declare an income lower than the presumptive income and total taxable income (after including income from other heads) exceeds the maximum amount not chargeable to tax i.e. Rs 2.5 lakh.

Unlike common perceptions, income from F&O Trading is considered a non-speculative business income, taxable at slab rates. If the tax liability of the F&O trader from all sources of income during the financial year exceeds INR 10,000, he/she is liable to pay Advance Tax in four quarterly instalments as per the applicable due date like any other income source.
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Answered on Feb 08, 2023

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is Standard Deduction available in New Tax Regime with respect to all category of income? How much is available. Any other tax exemption is available? Pl. clarify.
Ans: Standard Deduction to the extent of Rs 50,000 for salaried and pensioners is available in the new tax regime from next financial year and not the current one. The answer to your query is as below. I have simply copied it from another website, for your information.

With the revised new tax regime, several exemptions and deductions have been removed as below:-

1. Leave Travel Allowance
2. House rent allowance depending upon salary structure and rent paid
3. Professional tax paid by a maximum of Rs. 2,500/-
4. Deductions available under Section 80TTA and 80TTB that is interest from Savings Account/Deposits
5. Tax deduction on entertainment allowance and deduction on professional tax for government employees
6. The interest amount payable on home loan for a self-occupied or any vacant property u/s 24 maximum deductions of Rs 2 lakhs
7. Deduction of Rs 15,000 allowed from family pension under clause (ii) (a) Section 57
8. Special Allowances that are provided under Section 10(14) except:
9. Transport allowance granted to a disabled employee
10. Conveyance allowance
11. Any allowances granted for meeting the cost of travel on tour or transfer of an employee
12. Daily allowance
13. Perquisites
14. Business owners and professionals will lose the exemption to Special Economic Zones under Section 10AA.
15. Deductions under Section 32AD, 33AB, 33ABA, 35(1)(ii),35(1)(ii( (a), 35(1)(iii), 35(2AA), 35AD and 35CCC of the Income Tax Act.
16. Options of additional depreciation under Section 32(ii) (a) of the Income Tax Act
17. The option to carry forward or unabsorbed depreciation of earlier years
18. Tax-saving investment deductions under Income Tax Act , Chapter VI-A 80C, 80D, 80E, 80CCC, 80CCD, 80D, 80DD, 80DDB, 80EE, 80EEA, 80EEB, 80G, 80GG, 80GGA, 80GGC, 80IA, 80-IAB, 80-IAC, 80-IB, 80-IBA, etc. These tax-saving investment options include ELSS, NPS, PPF tax relief on mediclaim insurance premium, FDR, dependents who are differently-abled, expenses for specified medical treatments, interest on education loan and many more.



Exemptions that remain prevalent in the new revised system, that you can claim:

1. Standard deduction for salaried and pension class of Rs 50,000.
2. Interest received on Post Office Savings Account under Section 10(15)(i) the maximum amount of Rs. 3,500.
3. Gratuity received from employer up to a maximum amount of Rs. 20 Lacs.
4. Amount received from Life Insurance Policy on maturity under Section 10(10D).
5. Employer contribution in NPS or EPF up to 12% of salary and interest on EPF up to 9.5% p.a.
6. Income from Life Insurance.
7. Income from agricultural farming.
8. Standard reduction on rent.
9. Retrenchment compensation.
10. Leave encashment on retirement.
11. VRS proceeds up to Rs 5 lacs.
12. Retirement cum death benefit.
13. Money received as a scholarship for education.
14. Interest and maturity amount of PPF or Sukanya Smriddhi Yojna.
15. Commutation of Pension.
16. The new tax regime offers you to claim deductions u/s 80CCD(2) (employers contribution in notified pension scheme) and 80JJAA (for new employment).
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Answered on Feb 08, 2023

Money
Sir can u list the income exemptions which are eligible under revised New tax regime
Ans: The answer to your query is as below. I have simply copied it from another website, for your information.

With the revised new tax regime, several exemptions and deductions have been removed as below:-

1. Leave Travel Allowance
2. House rent allowance depending upon salary structure and rent paid
3. Professional tax paid by a maximum of Rs. 2,500/-
4. Deductions available under Section 80TTA and 80TTB that is interest from Savings Account/Deposits
5. Tax deduction on entertainment allowance and deduction on professional tax for government employees
6. The interest amount payable on home loan for a self-occupied or any vacant property u/s 24 maximum deductions of Rs 2 lakhs
7. Deduction of Rs 15,000 allowed from family pension under clause (ii) (a) Section 57
8. Special Allowances that are provided under Section 10(14) except:
9. Transport allowance granted to a disabled employee
10. Conveyance allowance
11. Any allowances granted for meeting the cost of travel on tour or transfer of an employee
12. Daily allowance
13. Perquisites
14. Business owners and professionals will lose the exemption to Special Economic Zones under Section 10AA.
15. Deductions under Section 32AD, 33AB, 33ABA, 35(1)(ii),35(1)(ii( (a), 35(1)(iii), 35(2AA), 35AD and 35CCC of the Income Tax Act.
16. Options of additional depreciation under Section 32(ii) (a) of the Income Tax Act
17. The option to carry forward or unabsorbed depreciation of earlier years
18. Tax-saving investment deductions under Income Tax Act , Chapter VI-A 80C, 80D, 80E, 80CCC, 80CCD, 80D, 80DD, 80DDB, 80EE, 80EEA, 80EEB, 80G, 80GG, 80GGA, 80GGC, 80IA, 80-IAB, 80-IAC, 80-IB, 80-IBA, etc. These tax-saving investment options include ELSS, NPS, PPF tax relief on mediclaim insurance premium, FDR, dependents who are differently-abled, expenses for specified medical treatments, interest on education loan and many more.



Exemptions that remain prevalent in the new revised system, that you can claim:

1. Standard deduction for salaried and pension class of Rs 50,000.
2. Interest received on Post Office Savings Account under Section 10(15)(i) the maximum amount of Rs. 3,500.
3. Gratuity received from employer up to a maximum amount of Rs. 20 Lacs.
4. Amount received from Life Insurance Policy on maturity under Section 10(10D).
5. Employer contribution in NPS or EPF up to 12% of salary and interest on EPF up to 9.5% p.a.
6. Income from Life Insurance.
7. Income from agricultural farming.
8. Standard reduction on rent.
9. Retrenchment compensation.
10. Leave encashment on retirement.
11. VRS proceeds up to Rs 5 lacs.
12. Retirement cum death benefit.
13. Money received as a scholarship for education.
14. Interest and maturity amount of PPF or Sukanya Smriddhi Yojna.
15. Commutation of Pension.
16. The new tax regime offers you to claim deductions u/s 80CCD(2) (employers contribution in notified pension scheme) and 80JJAA (for new employment).
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Answered on Feb 08, 2023

Money
Sir, best SIP to invest in monthly basis having bugest of INR 10 TO 15K.
Ans: I have no idea about your age, future financial goals, your risk profile and your existing investments. So, while giving one suggested solution to you, I’m assuming that you’re young (less than 40 years of age), are open to equity investing, have a long term horizon of at least 7 years or more and would have the nerves to not get unduly perturbed if markets go temporarily down.

Very first point to note is that when you write that you’re investing for 20 years, please do imbibe it into your thinking too that you’re in it for a very long term. Typically, investors change their investing horizon as per the market conditions – if markets remain good, they’re long term players, if markets turn down, they start exiting in panic and become short term players. Please remember that markets will always give great returns only if you ‘spend time in the markets, rather than try timing the market’.

Since you’re just 37 years old, you have a huge age advantage (those younger have even more advantage!) – use it to your benefit. I have no idea about your other investments, your future financial goals and your risk profile (implying how much volatility are you comfortable with in the markets).

So, I’m just giving you a high-equity portfolio which is a long term portfolio but needs to be reviewed and maybe rebalanced every year. I’m also assuming that you have no other funds or equity.
The portfolio that I would suggest is:-
1. Large Cap - 20% of SIP amount - HDFC Index Fund
2. Flexicap – 20% - Parag Parikh Flexicap Fund
3. Midcap – 20% - Kotak Emerging Equity Fund
4. Aggressive Hybrid – 20% - Canara Robeco Equity Hybrid Fund
5. Small Cap – 20% - SBI Small Cap Fund

In the above portfolio, the last, Small Cap category, will be very volatile and you will need to get used to it. If you’re not up to its gyrations, stick to first four with 25% allocation each.
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Answered on Jan 30, 2023

Money
Aged 47 Years, I am planning for a retirement fund of Rs3 Cr. Please guide.
Ans: Assuming that you have 13 years to retire, it would be good for you to invest in equity products and then use 4-bucket strategy for generating the required regular income for your retirement needs. You can read here about the bucket strategy: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/personal-finance/bucket-strategies-to-plan-income-from-retirement-corpus-9541101.html

You will need to invest about Rs 21,000 per month to reach your target of Rs 1 Crore in 13 years if you invest in a good portfolio of equity mutual funds. I would recommend you to stay away from direct equity if you do not have a prior knowledge and experience of stock market investing. And you would have a much bigger corpus at your disposal, if you increase this monthly investment by about 10% per year as your salary increase.

But please remember that:-
1. You should be comfortable with investing in stock markets and its regular gyrations.
2. Do not attempt to time the market by trying to get out or get it at any supposedly ‘opportune’ moments – it doesn’t work so.
3. Inflation at about 6% per year will continuously deplete the value of your money. SO be very sure that your calculation of Rs 1 Crore is sufficient to give you the required monthly income month-after-month. Eg, if you require Rs 50,000 today for your monthly expenses, 13 years later, you will require you will require about Rs 1.07 Lakhs for the same standard of living.
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Answered on Jan 30, 2023

Money
Hi sir,Myself Sujit Singha- Private sector service holder & i am 41yrs my Financial goal plan is 45/50 Lcs in next 15 to 20yrs so following investment portfolio for last 5 yrs so far & kindly suggest if any switch or new investment in MF to be done/add.No-1) IDFC Emerging Business Fund-Regu-Growth=Rs.1000/- No-2) Axis Bluechip Fund Growth =Rs.3000/- No-3) Axis Small Cap Fund Reg (G) =Rs.2000/- No-4)DSP Mid Cap Duns Reg(G) = Rs.2000/- No-5)Axis Flexi cap Fund (G) =Rs.1500/- No-6) Kotak Emerging Equity (G) =Rs.2000/- Other than this if any shares can i Hold for long term plz advice
Ans: You have a total of Rs 11,500 of SIPs per month. You will easily reach your target of Rs 50 Lakhs even in 15 years with the portfolio you are following, even after not taking into account the amount you have accumulated in the past 5 years!
And magic will happen if you increase your SIP by 10% each year as your salary increases.

However, remember that your portfolio is very aggressive, 100% equity oriented and would need a review and if required, rebalancing once a year.

My recommendations on your funds:-

1. Axis Bluechip Fund – Large Cap – Continue
2. Axis Flexicap Fund – Flexi Cap – Poor performance. Switch to Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund
3. Kotak Emerging Equity Fund – Mid Cap - Continue
4. DSP Mid Cap Fund – Mid Cap – Poor performance. Switch to PGIM India Midcap Opp Fund
5. IDFC Emerging Business – Small Cap - A very new fund with hardly any track record. Switch instead to SBI Small Cap Fund
6. Axis Small Cap Fund – Small Cap – Continue
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