Income tax liablity

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What will be my tax liablity if i take loan and buy shares and sell them after holding more than one year .i am salaried class person.
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Any gain/loss arising therefrom shall be treated under the head capital gains since it is an investment portfolio and not a trading one.

What will be my tax liability .means it will be treated as long or short term capital gain or will be clubbed in my income

If shares are listed, then these would be long term capital asset if held for >12 months and tax liability @ 20% + EC (if no STT). If STT is suffered, then LTCG is exempt from tax. If shares are not listed, then these have to be held for >36m for treating them as long-term capital asset. If unlisted shares are sold in <=36m, the same would be treated as short term capital gain transaction and tax rate applicable as per slabs.

Mam shares are listed, STT is paid. but my question is i have to buy shares by taking loan. so in case of loan how the shares are treated. its proceeds will be treated as business income, STCG or LTCG and holding period will be more than 12 months

It would not matter whether you buy shares out of your savings or borrowed funds. If borrowed funds are used for purchase of shares, interest on loan cannot be adjusted against any income. Tax treatment for sale of shares (in any case) remains the same as already explained above. Hope this is clear.

  1. Further, holding period starts from the date of purchase of shares (not from date when the funds are borrowed).
  2. Loan that you borrow will not be treated as your income at the time when you borrow the same. It will be treated as loan and does not form part of your income.

thanks mam thanks for valuable reply


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