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Corporate TaxArticle·2 October 2026

ITAT holds Redevelopment Compensation Cannot Be Taxed as Mere Transit Rent

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Executive Summary

The assessee received ₹13.50 lakh from a developer under a registered redevelopment agreement and had offered only the balance after rent expenditure to tax. The ITAT held that the receipt itself was compensation for hardship and displacement and therefore a non-taxable capital receipt, while also deleting salary and Chapter VI-A additions where contemporaneous documentary evidence had been wrongly disregarded.

Domain | Corporate Tax | DT

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