Taxpayer's Land Gift Excluded from Cost of Improvement for Capital Gains u/s 48 of Income Tax Act.

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....Addition on account of long term capital gains - indexed cost of acquisition - Claim of assessee that in financial year 1994- 95, the assessee has gifted certain portion of land through a release deed to Municipal Commissioner, same should be taken as cost of improvement. - According to us, that cost cannot be attributed for claim of cost of improvement and consequently indexed cost, for the purpose of Section 48 of the Act. Hence, we direct the AO to remove this amount while computing indexed cost of improvement and recomputed the capital gain accordingly.- AT....