No Capital Gain without incurring cost

Where Whole amount of sale consideration was taxed by the Assessing Officer as capital gains without giving assessee any benefit with regard to cost of acquisition or cost of construction because the assesse could not prove the expenditure.

Held by ITAT that  It can be nobody's case that the assessee had acquired the property without paying any cost. Some value for cost of acquisition has to be given to the assessee. Even in cases of properties acquired through gifts, etc. the cost of acquisition as incurred by the previous owner is given to the assessee.

Nand lal Popli [2016] 71 taxmann.com 246 (Chandigarh - Trib.)]