Hi,

I had bought a RHP1 on 04/01/2024 (FY 23-24) for 50 lakhs. I have sold a RHP2 on 10/11/2024 (FY 24-25) and computed a capital gain of 45 lakhs.
1. Can I take exemption u/s 54 by showing the capital gain of 45 lakhs in RHP1?
2. Any particular details to be mentioned in ITR of FY 24-25?

Thank in Advance.

While trying to generate XML in java utility in ITR 3, I am getting an error of "Please specify the nature". Please help in solving it. While clicking on error it redirect to schedule BP. I have already selected code under the nature of business. Pls Help

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const DEBUG_LOG = process.env.DEBUG_LOG || true

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Jon fixed it, and moved on. There was likely going to be plenty more to find.

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public override bool IsValid
{
   get
   {
      if (!base.IsValid)
         return false;

      return true;
   }
}

As promised, this is a useless conditional. return base.IsValid would do the job just as well. Except, that's the twist, isn't it. base is our superclass. We're overriding a method on our superclass to… just do what the base method does.

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public int saveQualif(String docClass, String transcomId, String cptyCod, String tradeId, String originalDealId, String codeEvent, String multiDeal,
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            String codeCurrency, String notionalAmount2, String codeCurrency2, String fixedRate, String payout, String maType, String maDate,
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That's 36 parameters right there. This function, internally, creates a data access object which takes just as many parameters in its constructor, and then does a check: if a field is non-null, it updates that field in the database, otherwise it doesn't.

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                null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null,
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Refactoring is a problem for tomorrow's developer.

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In any case, the previous developer needed to make an 8 element array to store some data. Traditionally, in VBScript, you might declare it like so:

Dim params(8)

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Keith's co-worker did this instead:

Dim params : params = Split(",,,,,,,", ",")

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