Income tax form

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yogendra prakash sharma (Querist)
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16 June 2012 sir,
i am a government employee and i trade in share market so which form should i filled for both (government salary+share market trading)for 2011-2012?

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CA PARAS BAFNA (Expert)
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16 June 2012 It depends upon the fact, whether you term, your share activities as an Investment Activity resulting in Capital Gains or as a Business Activity resulting in Business Profits. This can be ascertained mainly by the volume, frequency, source of investment and period of holding of shares.
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It is advisable to compute capital gains, in case the transactions are not so frequent.
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In case, you want to compute Capital gains file, ITR 2.
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If you treat these as Business- file ITR 4.
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