Amendments to Income Tax Act Section 50C on stamp duty valuation are retroactive, correcting past inequities in capital gains.

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....Capital gain Computation - Stamp duty valuation u/s 50C - Once legislature very graciously accepts, by introducing the legal amendments in question, that there were lacunas in the provisions of Section 50C in the sense that even in the cases of genuine variations between the stated consideration and the stamp duty valuation, anti-avoidance provisions under section 50C could be pressed into service, and thus remedied the law, there is no escape from holding that these amendments are effective with effect from the date on which the related provision, i.e., Section 50C, itself was introduced. These amendments are thus held to be retrospective in effect. - AT....