LTCG on Shares STT Paid Losses

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Swapnil Gorde (Querist)
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22 July 2010 Can LTCG loss for shares Exempted U/s 10 be carry forward if not set off against the income of current year.

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Bhaskaran Chackrapani Warrier (Expert)
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22 July 2010 If STT is paid ,long term capital gain/loss is exempt under section 10(38) and hence question of set off/ carrying forward does not arise.

srinath

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22 July 2010 LTCG loss exempted can neither be set off nor carry forward

Swapnil Gorde

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22 July 2010 Dear
can you please provide me in income tax bare act whre i can find this under which section. following is bare act reproduced which dose not say anything regarding this:
[Losses under the head “Capital gains”.
74. [(1) Where in respect of any assessment year, the net result of the compu- tation under the head “Capital gains” is a loss to the assessee, the whole loss shall, subject to the other provisions of this Chapter, be carried forward to the following assessment year, and—
(a) in so far as such loss relates to a short-term capital asset, it shall be set off against income, if any, under the head “Capital gains” assessable for that assessment year in respect of any other capital asset;
(b) in so far as such loss relates to a long-term capital asset, it shall be set off against income, if any, under the head “Capital gains” assessable for that assessment year in respect of any other capital asset not being a short-term capital asset;
(c) if the loss cannot be wholly so set off, the amount of loss not so set off shall be carried forward to the following assessment year and so on.]
(2) No loss shall be carried forward under this section for more than eight assessment years immediately succeeding the assessment year for which the loss was first computed.
(3) [Omitted by the Finance Act, 2002, w.e.f. 1-4-2003.]]

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Swapnil Gorde

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22 July 2010 Query is till open

srinath

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22 July 2010 when shares are sold through recognised stock exchange and STT is paid then it is covered u/s 10(38).

so there is no ques of looking at section 74 here

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