Unsupported cost estimation fails, while timely residential-property investment preserves section 54F relief despite procedural deposit non-compliance.

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....Unsupported estimation of indexed acquisition and construction or improvement costs cannot sustain capital-gains additions where neither the taxpayers' claims nor the Assessing Officer's adopted land and construction rates are supported by evidence. The reported tribunal decision deleted the resulting cost adjustments in all appeals. For section 54F, acquisition of a new residential property within the statutory period preserves the exemption despite non-deposit of interim unutilised gains in the Capital Gains Account Scheme, treating that omission as procedural. Exemption was allowed for investments made within time, but remained unavailable where the residential-property investment itself occurred beyond the prescribed period.....