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How Loss Harvesting from Bonus Shares is done ..... Please explain the Maths behind it.
Suppose you have some short term capital gains in trading of cash market shares. You have to pay a short term capital gains @15 % on them and if you are showing that stock trading as your business, it gets added to your business profits and taxed according to your tax slab.
Suppose you buy 100 shares of Biocon just before the ex bonus date, your investment will be Rs 1,10,000=00 . You will get 200 shares as bonus shares and immediately on allotment of bonus shares, you sell the 100 shares bought originally. That time the ex bonus price will be somewhere around Rs 350=00 so you incurr a short term capital loss of Rs 1,10,000=00 - Rs 35,000 ( sale of 100 shares ex bonus) = Rs 75,000 short term capital loss.
So in the above short term loss, you can adjust all your short term profits ( to an extent of rs 75,000=00 and you save totally on short term capital gains tax.
But remember that the
200 bonus shares which will be allotted will have cost of acquisition as Zero.So if they are sold within 1 year from their date of allotment, then you will be paying short term capital gains tax on this sale....if sold after 1 year then that gain also is long term capital gains in stocks and is free from any tax.
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