About Us
CA.S.Krishnan hails from a family of Chartered Accountants and started his practice in 1974. He is recognized as a leading Consultant on Direct Taxes.
During the past 45 ruby years of practice, he has handled various audits including Statutory Audit, Tax Audit, Concurrent audit and Stock Audit of banks, Internal Audit of hotels and other industrial concerns.
He has acquired specialized knowledge in the field of Capital Gains in Direct Taxes and on Works Contract in Indirect Taxes and GST Applications. Tax planning in Capital Gain is his niche area. Various tax fora are respecting his advice and opinions on tax planning in respect of capital gains.
He has made various presentations on Capital Gain and other related issues at several seminars organized by the Southern India Regional Council, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Since Capital Gain is his special area of interest, he is contributing articles and opinions on web-site as well as to various Tax Journals with his analytical thinking and updating based on various court decisions on Capital Gains tax regularly.
The topics covered by him on capital gains include life interest, joint development of property, Taxation of Income of NRI's with special reference to withholding of tax under section 195 of the Income-tax Act, Family Settlement/Family Arrangement, Transfer of Property for inadequate consideration etc. and applications of GST.
He firmly believes that one should keep updating himself on a continuous basis on this subject since each and every issue which arises on the subject of capital gain taxation is unique in nature.
He is providing professional services to most of his clients for the past four and a half decade.
CAPITAL GAIN-IN A NUTSHELL
Transfer of capital assets in the form of land and buildings results in profits which are referred to as Capital gains and accordingly taxed under the head “Capital Gains” under the Indian Income-tax Act. Because of dearth of land in India there is always a demand for land, transfer of which results in huge profits. But there are lots of tax benefits available for such huge profits arising out of such transfer for which proper tax planning is essential. In order to compensate taxing of such huge profits, Indian Government acting through Central Board of Direct Taxes, the highest body so far as Direct Taxes are concerned, has introduced the concept of indexation by notifying inflation index point for each financial year (April to March).So separate index points are available for year of acquisition of capital asset, year of improvement and year of transfer of such capital asset.
Capital gain is thus difference between the selling price (total consideration) and total sum up of indexed cost of acquisition and indexed cost of Improvement in respect of a capital asset {residential property and /or land}. Any expenditure incurred wholly and exclusively in connection with transfer of such capital asset,including amount spent on travel from country of stay to India in respect of a Non Resident Individual (NRI) can be subtracted from the total sale consideration which will therefore lessen capital gains...
As such, S.Krishnan has for the past several years handled capital gain issues arising out of sale of property for Residents and Non Residents. He has gained immense experience on various aspects of this subject based on the prevailing Accounting Standards, law existing on the date of transaction(s) and in the light of the latest pronouncements by Courts and Income-tax Appellate Tribunal Benches and also based on the Circulars issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
With regard to tax planning in respect of capital gains, various connected issues such as definition of Transfer in relation to Capital assets, claiming of exemption for investing in a Residential House and/ or Capital Gain Bonds etc. are worked out with meticulous care and accuracy for the benefit of clients.
CA S.Krishnan has also specialized in providing professional services in connection with Repatriation of funds for Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and Persons of Indian Origin(PIOs) consequent to capital gains arising on transfer of capital assets by filing necessary documents before Income-tax Authorities as well as transferring bank to make the process hassle free for the clients.