Shri Vijaysinh R. Rathod And Ors. vs Ito on 27 October, 2006
43. This was a case where certain shares acquired by Karta of HUF were thrown into hotchpot of HUF and on sale thereof, assessee claimed deduction for cost of acquisition thereof at market value of previous owner as cost of acquisition on the date they were thrown into HUF hotchpot. At that time, the provision for substituted cost of acquisition was not there under Section 49 for the property thrown into HUF hotchpot. This decision was followed by Bombay High Court in the case of CIT v. Kanubhai R. Shah (HUF) 201 ITR 1050 (Bom), again a case referred by AO in his order, and it was noticed that substituted cost under Section 49(1) was provided for the first time by inserting clause-(iv) w.e.f. 1-4-1976 by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975. The Court took value of cost of acquisition at 'Nil' for computing capital gain. A contention with regard to Section 55(3) was raised before the High Court which held that section has no application. In this case, assessee received the assets on partial partition from bigger HUF and the cost of acquisition in the hands of smaller HUF was taken at 'Nil'. Assessee raised a contention for taking market value to be substituted as cost of acquisition of the previous owner, but the court rejected the contentions by observing as under: