Indexation of acquisition costs limited to prescribed computation item, narrowing administrative discretion and clarifying taxpayer application.
Section 72 prescribes that capital gains equal the full value of consideration less specified deductions (transfer expenditures, cost of acquisition and improvements), with indexation applying in prescribed contexts as indexed equivalents; it excludes certain items from deduction, provides cost adjustments for business trust distributions, grants specified entities additional prescribed deductions, and imposes special currency conversion and rupee appreciation rules for non residents, while defining indexed cost calculations by reference to a Cost Inflation Index.