Ito, Kotdwar vs Sh. Kalyan Singh Adhikari, Kotdwar on 20 April, 2017
In CIT-I/, Chandigarh Vs. Harjit Singh Sangha
(2003) 217 Taxman 201, the Punjab & Haryana High Court observed
in a case where the assessee sold his agriculture land in small size
plots and the Assessing Officer charged tax on the profit "the
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said asset being held by the assessee cannot be said to be a business
asset and its sale in small plots of land to different purchaser is not a
adventure in the nature of trade, in the absence of the assessee having
floated the same or divided its land for the purpose other than
agriculture land. Further for converting the use, prior permission is
required from the authorities and in the absence of any permission
being obtained by the assessee from PUDA authorities in respect of
the land sold, merely because the land is sold in smaller plots to
persons, who intended its residential use, does not change the nature
of land sold in the hands of the assessee, and it's taxability."