Is A Quirk In The Angel Fund Tax Exemption Blocking Startups From Acquiring And Growing?

In 2019, the Indian government said in Parliament that angel investments are exempted from taxation under the Income Tax Act, 1961. “Startups receiving investments from Ventures Capital Fund are exempt from taxation as per provision of Section 56, (2) (vii b) of Income Tax Act 1961. Angel Fund is sub category of Ventures Capital Fund under Category-I Alternative Investment Fund (AIF), hence, [it is] eligible for the same exemption,” Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said in a written reply. But as one angel investor recently found out, a quirk in the law means that if companies want to avail of this exemption, they must give up a lot of ways of deploying that capital.

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