My flat has quadrupled since I bought it. Which number goes in Schedule AL?

The cost, from your deed and payment records, not today's value. The appreciation only meets the taxman when you sell. Where we help is with assets whose cost is not sitting on a deed: inherited and pre 2001 holdings.

The family plot was bought in 1996 with half the papers informal. What now?

We establish a defendable figure from what exists: the registration record of the area and period, the layout history, and the rules for old assets. That certified working is what protects the return if questioned.

Do husband and wife both list a jointly held plot?

Each lists their share per the filing rules your CA applies. What we ensure is that the underlying property figure both filings use is the same certified number, so the returns agree with each other.

Schedule AL valuation in Hyderabad

RSUs vest, income crosses fifty lakh rupees, and suddenly the tax return wants a full statement of assets and liabilities. Hyderabad filers then face a very local question: what is the cost, on paper, of the plot the family bought before the boom for almost nothing?

Cost in a city that repriced itself

Schedule AL wants cost, not market value, and that distinction matters enormously here. Your Gachibowli flat may be worth four times its 2016 price, but the schedule wants the 2016 cost. Simple. The hard rows are the older ones: the inherited share of an Old City house, the plot bought informally in the nineties, the land that was agricultural when acquired. Cost for those is constructed under the rules, and the construction needs certified figures.

Hyderabad filers who come to us

Tech employees past fifty lakh for the first time, listing family plots and flats they never had to declare.
Heirs holding shares of parental property, where cost traces back a generation or to 2001.
Owners whose plots came through old layouts, where the paper trail is thin and the figure must be built carefully.
Returning NRIs whose Hyderabad assets enter resident filings and should enter them consistently.

Whatever cost you file now is the story you must tell when you sell. In a market this hot, that sale may come sooner than you think, and the two filings will be compared. One certificate keeps them aligned.

Schedule AL questions from Hyderabad

My flat has quadrupled since I bought it. Which number goes in Schedule AL?: The cost, from your deed and payment records, not today's value. The appreciation only meets the taxman when you sell. Where we help is with assets whose cost is not sitting on a deed: inherited and pre 2001 holdings.
The family plot was bought in 1996 with half the papers informal. What now?: We establish a defendable figure from what exists: the registration record of the area and period, the layout history, and the rules for old assets. That certified working is what protects the return if questioned.
Do husband and wife both list a jointly held plot?: Each lists their share per the filing rules your CA applies. What we ensure is that the underlying property figure both filings use is the same certified number, so the returns agree with each other.

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Checked by Parish Rao, Chartered Engineer and Government Approved Valuer.

Page last checked on 23 August 2026.

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