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Section 68 — Capital gains on distribution of assets by companies in liquidation

Income-tax Act, 2025 (amended upto 2026)

In plain terms: This section deals with distribution of a company's assets on liquidation. The distribution is not treated as a transfer by the company, but a shareholder who receives money or assets is taxed under capital gains on the money received or the market value of the assets, less the cost of the shares and as the section provides.

(1) Irrespective of anything contained in section 67, where the assets of a company are distributed to its shareholders on its liquidation, such distribution shall not be regarded as a transfer by the company for the purposes of the said section.

(2) If a shareholder, on the liquidation of a company, receives any money or other assets from the company, then,--

(a) such shareholder shall be chargeable to income-tax under the head "Capital gains", in respect of the money so received or the market value of the other assets on the date of distribution, as reduced by the amount assessed as dividend within the meaning of section 2(40)(c); and

(b) the sum so arrived at shall be deemed to be the full value of the consideration for the purposes of section 72.