Cost of acquisition rules align transferee basis with transferor cost, including improvements and transfer expenditures to ensure tax consistency.
Special provisions set the transferee's cost of acquisition equal to the transferor's cost, include improvements and expenditures wholly and exclusively incurred in connection with the transfer, and require recordkeeping; Clause 40 expressly excludes assets under section 67(6), while Section 43C similarly treats improvements and transfer expenditures with an explicit reference to gift-tax and a historical temporal application.