Income Tax Act 2025: Section 41 for Tax Year 2025-26

The written down value (WDV) of a depreciable asset under Section 41(1) of the Income Tax Act 2025 is calculated based on acquisition timing and asset transfers.

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Written down value of depreciable asset

[As per the Income Tax Act, 2025 (this Act) w.e.f. 1st April, 2026.]

Section 41(1) of Income Tax Act 2025

(1) For the purposes of different provisions for computation of income under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession”, written down value for the tax year shall be as mentioned in column C of the Table below:—

Table

Sl. No.CircumstancesWritten down value
ABC
1In case the asset is acquired in the tax year.Actual cost to the assessee.
2In case the asset is acquired before the tax year.Actual cost to the assessee less depreciation actually allowed under this Act or the Income-tax Act, 1961.
3In case of block of assets.[(A-D)+ B-C]-E.

Note:–– In column C,—

A = the written down value of the block of assets in the immediately preceding tax year;

B = actual cost of any asset falling within that block, acquired during the tax year;

C = moneys payable together with scrap value, if any, in respect of any asset falling within the block, which is sold, transferred, demolished, destroyed or discarded during the tax year, where “C” shall not exceed (A-D)+B;

D = depreciation actually allowed in respect of block of assets in relation to the said immediately preceding tax year;

E = in the case of a slump sale, the actual cost of the asset falling within that block as reduced by depreciation allowable from the tax year 1988-1989 onwards, as if the asset was the only asset in the relevant block of assets, which shall not exceed [(A-D)+B-C].

4Where any block of asset is transferred by—
(a)(i) a holding company to its subsidiary company; or
(ii) a subsidiary company to its holding company and the conditions of section 70(1)(c) and (d) are satisfied; or
(b) amalgamating company to the amalgamated company
being an Indian company.
Written down value in the hands of the transferee company or amalgamated company is the same as written down value in the hands of transferor company or amalgamating company, as the case may be, at the beginning of the tax year in which such transfer took place.
5Where any asset, forming
part of a block of assets is
transferred by a demerged
company to a resulting
company.
Written down value of block of assets––
(a) for demerged company (for the immediately preceding tax year), shall be the written down value in the immediately preceding tax year as reduced by the written down value of the assets transferred to the resulting company pursuant to such demerger;
(b) for resulting company, shall be the written down value of the assets transferred from the demerged company immediately before such demerger.
6Where any block of assets
is transferred by a private
company or unlisted public
company to a limited liability
partnership and the conditions
in section 70(1)(ze) are
satisfied.
Written down value in the hands of limited liability partnership shall be written down value in the hands of said
company as on the date of conversion of the company into limited liability partnership.
7Where any asset forming
part of the block of assets is
transferred to a company
under the scheme of
corporatisation of a
recognised stock exchange in
India approved by the
Securities and Exchange
Board of India.
Written down value of the block of assets in the hands of resulting company, shall be the written down value of the assets transferred immediately before such transfer.
8In a case of succession in
business or profession under
section 313, where an
assessment is made in the
hands of successor under
section 313 (2).
Written down value of any asset or block of assets shall be the amount which would have been taken as its written down value, if the assessment had been made directly on the person succeeded to.

Section 41(2) of Income Tax Act 2025

(2) Any allowance in respect of any depreciation carried forward under section 33(11) shall be deemed to be the depreciation actually allowed.

Section 41(3) of Income Tax Act 2025

(3) Where an assessee was not required to compute his total income for the purposes of this Act for any tax year or tax years preceding the tax year under consideration,—

(a) the actual cost of an asset shall be adjusted by the amount attributable to the revaluation of such asset, if any, in the books of account;

(b) the total amount of depreciation on such asset provided in the books of account of the assessee in respect of such tax year or tax years preceding the tax year under consideration shall be deemed to be the depreciation actually allowed under this Act for the purposes of this clause; and

(c) the depreciation actually allowed under clause (b) shall be adjusted by the amount of depreciation attributable to such revaluation of the asset.

Section 41(4) of Income Tax Act 2025

(4) For the purposes of this section, where the income of an assessee is derived, in part from agriculture and in part from business chargeable to income-tax under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession”, for computing the written down value of assets acquired before the tax year, the total amount of depreciation shall be computed as if the entire income is derived from the business of the assessee under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession” and the depreciation so computed shall be deemed to be the depreciation actually allowed under this Act or
under the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Section 41(5) of Income Tax Act 2025

(5) In this section, “sold” shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 38(6)(a).

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