Q. > Please Help: clarification on gudience note issued by ICAI on revenue reocgnisation in caseof builder

669 views • Question added Jun 19, 2014 • Income Tax • By CA Shraddha Vora , CA , Mumbai

Query :
The assessee is builder having various project and the following the Guidance note issued by ICAI for revenue Recognition.
However as per the guidance Note Following is the wording _
“ Further to the conditions in paragraph 5.2 there is a rebuttable presumption that the outcome of a real estate project can be estimated reliably and that revenue should be recognised under the percentage completion method only when the events in (a) to (d) below are completed.
(a) …..
(b) …..
(c) …...
(d) Atleast 10 % of the total revenue as per the agreements of sale or any other legally enforceable documents are realised at the reporting date in respect of each of the contracts and it is reasonable to expect that the parties to such contracts will comply with the payment terms as defined in the contracts. To illustrate – If there are 10 Agreements of sale and 10 % of gross amount is realised in case of 8 agreements, revenue can be recognised with respect to these 8 agreements.
From the above wording point (d) says that agreement of sale need to executed or any other legally enforceable document are realized at the reporting date.
1. Can allotment letter issued to the customer can be said legally enforceable document?
2. If above is yes, then we need to recognize the revenue on the advances received (more then 10%) cases of which sale agreement is not executed?
3. What is market trend used by the builder for the aforesaid cases?