Section 72 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : Mode of computation of capital gains.

(1) Income chargeable under the head “Capital gains” shall be computed, by deducting from the full value of the consideration received or accruing as a result of the transfer of the capital asset, the following amounts:—(a) expenditure incurred wholly and exclusively in connection with such transfer; and(b) the cost of acquisition of the asset and […]

Section 81 of Income Tax Act, 2025 : Advance money received.

Where any capital asset was, on any previous occasion, the subject of negotiations for its transfer, any advance or other money received and retained by  the assessee in respect of such negotiations––(a) shall be deducted from the cost for which the asset was acquired or the written down value or the fair market value, as