Rahul Arora
Rahul Arora, Energy and Currency Trader (2018-present)
Any profits or losses from day trading are called Speculative; either Speculative Profits or Speculative Losses. A person doing intraday trading is automatically considered as someone who is either an active trader or trading as a business. There is no special tax rate for speculative profits, it is considered as a business income and taxed as per any other business activity.
In case of speculative losses, you can carry these forward for the next 4 years provided you have declared the same while filing your returns and net off only against any speculative profits over the next 4 years. So here is the tricky bit [Section 73(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961], Speculative losses (day trading losses) can be netted off against only speculative profits (day trading profits) and nothing else. What this means is that if in a particular year, you have made a profit of Rs 2,00,000 from short term trading of stocks (delivery based trading) and a Rs 3,00,000 loss (from intraday trading), you cannot net it off and say I made a Rs. 2,00,000 loss and hence no profit. In this example, you can carry forward your speculative loss for 4 years (Rs 3,00,000) and pay taxes on the Rs 100,000 profit that you made.

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