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XXI NISM Series XXI-A
Medium

A company is frequently trading in its own equity shares for the last 2-3 years. Sometimes it also took short-term loans for this purpose. Now the company wants the profits earned in this process to be treated as Capital Gains. Can it convince the Income Tax officials?

Practice question from NISM XXI A for PMS - Mock Test 6 — bank. The correct answer is highlighted below with a full explanation.

Options

  1. No, as the trading was leveraged with borrowing (short term loans)

    Correct answer

  2. B

    No, as the trading was done frequently, it will be considered as Business Income

  3. C

    Yes, if the company shows these as investments in the books of accounts

  4. D

    Only A or C

Why this is the answer

Frequent trading with leverage suggests business activity, so profits are taxed as business income, not capital gains.

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