# Parents’ gifts to married daughter are tax-free but income from them is taxed 2026-08-16T02:58:20+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet (2 source reports) Gifts from parents to a married daughter are generally tax-free under the Income-tax Act, 2025, regardless of amount, as parents fall under 'specified relatives'. The usual Rs 50,000 threshold for gifts does not apply, according to tax expert Nishant Shanker of Navraj Global Advisors, as reported by Livemint. However, any income generated from the gifted asset, such as interest, rent, dividends or capital gains, is taxable in the daughter's hands. For example, if gifted money is placed in a fixed deposit or ULIP, the interest is taxable. Rent from gifted property or capital gains from its sale are also taxable. Similarly, for NRIs gifting money to their father's Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), the gift itself is tax-free if the NRI is a member of that HUF. But income earned by the HUF from investing those funds will be clubbed with the NRI's taxable income, Livemint reports. ## Coverage - livemint.com - livemint.com (2) This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-09-27T06:17:02+00:00. Tags: Income-tax Act, 2025, Navraj Global Advisors Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/gift-to-married-daughter-tax-free-income-from-it-taxed/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/gift-to-married-daughter-tax-free-income-from-it-taxed/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/