Commissioner Of Income Tax, Bangalore ... vs B. C. Srinivasa Setty, Etc. Etc on 19 February, 1981
4.15 The case of ITAT read with decision of Bombay
High Court squarely applies to the case of the
appellant. As the additional FSI amounts to cost of
improvement to the property "Padmavati Sadan",
which was acquired by the appellant because of his
rights in the old property and the said additional FSI
would not otherwise be available to the appellant by
spending money, the cost of improvement to the
property by way of enhanced FSI cannot be
ascertained. Hence, following the earlier mentioned
two decisions of Hon'ble Bombay High Court and
Hon'ble ITAT, Mumbai, ΒΆ am of the view that the
decision of Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of
B.C. Sreenivasa Setty (supra) would be applicable
to the appellant's case. Therefore, there would be
no LTCG chargeable on transfer of the property
'Padmavati Sadan' to the developer for
redevelopment as the computation mechanism fails.
amount of Rs.37,00,000/- received by the appellant
from the developer is not liable to LTCG. Similarly,
the amount of Rs.12,03,3331 - added by the AO to
the total consideration for transfer on account of
cost of new flat, office space and parking space is
also not liable to LTCG on the same reasoning as
this amount of Rs.12,03,333/- is part of the total
consideration for transfer of appellant's right in the
property.