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Under the Income Tax Act, when you sell a capital asset (like property), you pay tax on the "Capital Gains." To adjust for inflation, the government allows "Indexation." You multiply the cost of the property by the Cost Inflation Index (CII) of the sale year and divide by the CII of the purchase year.
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