This discussion clarifies the tax treatment of speculative transactions, focusing on how to calculate turnover. It explains that while ICAI provides guidelines for turnover calculation, transactions without delivery of goods or scripts cannot be declared as short-term capital gains or losses.
22 July 2023
ICAI has provided guidelines for calculation of turnover of different business transactions, be speculative or non-speculative; but it cannot be declared as short term capital gain/loss without taking delivery of the goods/scripts.