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Treatment of Income Earned from Listed Equity Share Trading in ITR

Treatment of Income Earned from Listed Equity Share Trading in ITR
Equity Share Trading is a common way to make an investment which involves buying and selling of shares and stock of listed companies traded on the stock exchange market like NSE (National Stock Exchange) and BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange). Some people also do business and trade of Equity Shares.
For Trading in listed equities, demat account and trading account are mandatory.
In this article, one would discuss how to tax Listed Equity share Trading Transactions in Income Tax Return.

Delivery Based Transaction

Delivery-based trading includes actual buying and selling of shares. Now a Investor doing Delivery based share trading can have: i) Business Motive or ii) Investment Motive
If you have a Business Motive
The income earned from this transaction will come under Profit and Gains from Business and Profession.
For this taxable income, ITR-3 is required to file.
If your transaction has an Investment Motive
The income earned from this transaction will be called Capital Gains.
For this taxable income, ITR-2 needs to be filed.

Non Delivery Based Transaction

It is also divided into 2 further categories – i) F&O, ii) Intraday

Futures and Option (F&O)

F&O means – Future is contract where at the predeterimned price, a person can buy or sell an underlying stock or other assets on a specific date. Whereas, the Option are the contract that provides an investor a opportunity as a right not an obligations to buy or sell the stock and assets at a specific price on a specific date.

In the case of F&O Transaction, the income earned from this transaction will be termed as Normal Business Income.

An ITR-3 is required to file by the individuals.

Intraday

As word Intraday speaks itself which means “within the day”. The term used to tell that the securities that trade on the share market on daily basis.

In the case of Intraday transactions, the income earned from this transaction will be called Speculation Business.

In this case, ITR-3 is required to file.

Other Conditions

One can also opt for Presumptive Taxation Scheme in case of Business of Share Trading. ITR-4 is to be filed if the conditions of using the form are fulfilled.

Capital Gain can be Long Term (more than 1 year) or Short term (less than 1 year).