If the immovable property is being transferred formally from a partner's name to the partnership firm's name or in joint names of the partners, and there is a regular transfer / conveyance deed, etc., then of course, payment of registration fee, stamp duty, etc., would be required.
Section 45(3) has been introduced in the Income-tax Act, 1961 (Act) by the Finance Act, 1987 w.e.f 01.04.1988. Section 45(3) states that “the profits or gains arising from the transfer of a capital asset by a person to a firm or other association of persons or body of individuals (not being a company or a co-operative society) in which he is or becomes a partner or member, by way of capital contribution or otherwise, shall be chargeable to tax as his income of the previous year in which such transfer takes place and, for the purposes of section 48, the amount recorded in the books of account of the firm, association or body as the value of the capital asset shall be deemed to be the full value of the consideration received or accruing as a result of the transfer of the capital asset”.