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Gift-tax, gift tax is to place the tax on the gift of property which may include land and buildings. It is not a tax imposed directly upon lands and buildings but is a tax upon the value of the total gifts made in a year which is above the exempted limit. There is no tax upon lands or buildings as units of taxation. Indeed the lands and buildings are valued to find out the total amount of the gift and what is taxed is the gift. The value of the lands and buildings is only the measure of the value of the gift. A gift-tax is thus not a tax on lands and buildings as such which is a tax resting upon general ownership of lands and buildings but is a levy upon a particular use, which is transmission of title by gift, Second Gift Tax Officer v. D.H. Hazareth, (1970) 1 SCC 749: AIR 1970 SC 999 (1002). (Gift Tax Act, 1958)...
gift tax
gift tax : an excise tax imposed on a donor for gifts of property made during the donor's lifetime see also annual exclusion, gift split gift at gift, unified transfer tax compare death tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax ...
Gift Tax Act and Estate Duty Act
Gift Tax Act and Estate Duty Act, between the Gift Tax Act and the Estate Duty Act there is basic difference in that the tax effect in the first ison transaction inter vivos and in the second onthe generating source of transmission by death, Controller of Estate Duty v. Shri Kantilal Trikamlal, AIR 1976 SC 1935 (1946): (1976) 4 SCC 643: (1977) 1 SCR 9...
Gift
Gift. The old text-writers made a gift (donatio) a distinct species of deed, and describe it as a conveyance applicable to the creation of an estate-tail; while a feoffment they strictly confine to the creation of a fee simple estate. The operative verb was 'give,' which no longer implies any covenant in law (Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 4), replaced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 59(2), and the deed required livery of seisin. It is obsolete. See Jac. Law Dict.A gift is now understood to mean a mere voluntary assurance or transfer of property without any consideration being given for it. Such a transaction is apt to be very jealously scrutinized in a Court of Equity, and will be set aside on proof of undue influence (see that title), or of a fiduciary relationship of the donee to the donor, see Huguenin v. Baseley, (1806-8) 14 Ves 273; W. & T. L.C.; Morley v. Loughman, (1893) 1 Ch 736 (757); Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655. In the absence of any such objectio...
gift
gift 1 : an intentional and gratuitous transfer of real or personal property by a donor with legal capacity who actually or constructively delivers the property to the donee with the intent of giving up dominion over the property and investing it in the donee who accepts it ;broadly : a voluntary transfer of property without compensation see also delivery compare donation, sale class gift : a usually testamentary gift of a sum to a group of unspecified persons whose number and identity and share of the gift will be determined sometime in the future (as at the death of the donor) com·plet·ed gift : a gift in which the dominion and control of the property is placed beyond the donor's reach gift cau·sa mor·tis [-kȯ-zə-mȯr-tis, -ka-sÄ -mȯr-tēs] pl: gifts causa mortis : a gift of esp. personal property made in contemplation of impending death that is delivered with the intent that the gift take effect only in the event of the donor's...
Gift, 'transfer of property
Gift, 'transfer of property', the definition of 'gift' makes it clear that there has to be a transfer by one person to another of movable or immovable property; such transfer has to be voluntary and without consideration in money or money's worth. What is, therefore, absolutely essential for the purposes of a gift is a transfer of property. 'Transfer of property' is defined for the purposes of the Gift-tax Act as any disposition or conveyance, or assignment or settlement or delivery or payment or other alienation of property, C.G.T. v. T.M. Louiz, (2000) 7 SCC 486: AIR 2000 SC 3136 (3138). [Gift-tax Act, 1958, ss. 2(xii) & (xxiv), 3 and 4]...
Payment
Payment, is the act of paying, K.S. Bawa v. Director of Enforcement, (1990) Cr LJ 1068.The payment of money before the day appointed is in law payment at the day; for it cannot, in presumption of law, be any prejudice to him to whom the payment is made to have his money before the time; and it appears by the party's receipt of it, that it is for his own advantage to receive it then, otherwise he would not do it, 5 Rep. 117. See the notes to Cumber v. Wane, (1719) in 1 Smith's L.C.Payment is a recompense for service rendered, Bala Subrahmanya Rajaram v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1958 SC 518 (519): (1958) SCR 1504.(ii) 'Payment' implies gift of money by someone to another. A partition in a H.U.F. can be considered either as 'disposition' or 'conveyance' or 'assign-ment' or 'settlement' or 'delivery' or 'payment' or 'alienation' within the meaning of those words in s. 2 (xxiv) of Gift Tax Act, 1958; Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty Chettiar, AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1972) 1 SCR 736: (1971) 2 SCC 74...
In the course of carrying on the business etc
In the course of carrying on the business etc., the expression 'in the course of carrying on of business etc.' means that the gift should have some relationship with the carrying on of the business. If a donor makes a gift only while he is running the business that may not be sufficient to bring the gift within the first part of cl. (xiv) of s. 5(1) of the Gift Tax Act, Commissioner of Gift Tax v. P. Gheevarghese, Travancore Timbers and Products, AIR 1972 SC 23: (1972) 4 SCC 323: (1972) 1 SCR 817....
qualified disclaimer
qualified disclaimer : an irrevocable and absolute refusal to accept a particular interest in the estate of a decedent (as a spouse) that is made in accordance with federal tax requirements and results in favorable tax consequences (as exemption from a gift tax) NOTE: Property disclaimed under a qualified disclaimer is not treated as a gift and is not included in the gross estate of the decedent. Thus property disclaimed by a surviving spouse could pass to his or her children without incurring a gift tax. A disclaiming party cannot, however, direct the disposition of the disclaimed interest and must not have accepted the interest or its benefits (as dividends). ...
unified transfer tax
unified transfer tax : a tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code on the cumulative total of gifts made over a certain amount by a person during his or her lifetime or after death called also unified estate and gift tax see also unified credit NOTE: The unified transfer tax system creates liability for a single tax rather than separate liability for a gift tax and an estate tax. ...
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