Hold shares of US-listed corporations? Know revenue tax guidelines on positive factors

The covid-19 pandemic opened the doorways for a lot of first-time traders to strive their fingers on the inventory markets. Apart from utilizing conventional instruments like mounted deposit (FD), recurring deposit (RD), PPF, amongst others to amass wealth, traders began shopping for shares of corporations to construct wealth. But are you aware all corporations aren’t listed on the inventory change, i.e. National Stock Exchange (NSE) or Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Listed and Unlisted shares

A listed firm is a inventory exchange-listed firm whereby the shares are overtly tradable. When you put money into the inventory of an organization it means you personal a share within the firm that issued the inventory.

An unlisted firm is an organization that isn’t listed on the inventory market. Unlisted shares aren’t listed on BSE or NSE. These shares are traded over-the-counter (OTC) market.

The tax implication of those unlisted corporations can be completely different from different listed corporations. Archit Gupta, CEO, Clear (previously cleartax), a fintech SaaS firm that gives ITR submitting help, explains that the Income tax act differentiates between tax therapy of listed and unlisted shares.

“So when you personal shares of an American firm which is listed there however not in India then will probably be thought-about not listed in India. They could also be thought-about unlisted for the aim of taxation in India.” added Gupta.

The applicability of capital gain tax would depend on whether the unlisted stocks are long term or short term.

Gupta of Clear explained that for unlisted shares, the short term capital gains time period will be considered as 24 months and long term capital gains will apply only if the said unlisted shares are sold after 24 months.

“Indexation benefits for long term capital gains taxation will be allowed, this will increase the asset’s cost to give the effect of inflation,” added Gupta.

Long-term capital positive factors on the sale of listed fairness shares are absolutely exempt as much as ₹1 lakh yearly and past that the identical are taxed at flat price of 10% with out good thing about indexation. 

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