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A step-by-step worksheet for traders who moved brokers partway through the financial year: what to pull from each br...
A practical checklist for salaried taxpayers and non-audit traders filing before the July 31, 2026 due date: documen...
RIA or MFD? One charges the client a fee and owes a fiduciary duty; the other earns commission from the AMC and sell...
The step-by-step route to a SEBI Investment Adviser registration in 2026: qualifications, the NISM Level 1 and Level...
The complete filing workflow for F&O traders: what to collect before you start, how to fill Schedule BP and Schedule...
SEBI SETU is a single-window platform meant to guide Investment Advisers from registration through ongoing complianc...
Commodity futures on MCX are non-speculative business income, taxed the same way as equity F&O. CTT is deductible, l...
Section 44AD lets eligible businesses presume 6% profit on turnover and skip detailed books. F&O is explicitly exclu...
Form 26AS shows TDS and advance tax credits. AIS shows every securities transaction the exchange reported about you....
NRIs can trade F&O on Indian exchanges, subject to FEMA restrictions. The income is taxable in India as business inc...
What separates an IA from an RA under SEBI: per-client suitability that gates every advice, capped fees (2.5% AUA or...
Intraday equity is speculative business income, not capital gains and not the same as F&O. The ITR-3 requirement, th...
F&O traders can pick between regimes every year. Trading expenses are deductible under both because they are busines...
The July 2024 budget raised STCG to 20% and LTCG to 12.5% on listed equity, with the exemption limit moving to ₹1.25...
F&O trading is not a supply of services, so your contract turnover does not create a GST liability. But the threshol...
Deliberately realising a loss before March 31 to offset a gain is a legal, textbook tax move. The set-off rules that...
A pricing teardown by trader segment: occasional intraday, regular F&O, multi-broker, audit-eligible, and CA firms....
Switching tax tools mid-year sounds painful and rarely is. The export-import playbook: which broker files to pull, h...
Single-trader filing tools and generalist platforms both struggle once a CA runs many trader books. What a firm actu...
Missed the July 31 deadline? Filed wrong income? What belated and revised returns mean for F&O traders, the interest...
Your AIS shows transactions your ITR did not declare, or shows wrong values. What an AIS mismatch means for F&O trad...
A Section 143(1) intimation is not a notice of tax evasion. It is a computer-processed comparison between your ITR a...
How crypto and virtual digital assets are taxed in India: the 30% flat rate, 1% TDS deduction, the no-loss-set-off r...
Section 44AB(e) can make a mandatory audit apply even when your F&O turnover is under ₹2 crore and you reported a ne...
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