ट्रेडर्स यदि आपने कोई स्टॉक्स या म्यूच्यूअल फण्ड अपने पोर्टफोलियो में रखा है जिसमे अनरियलाइज़्ड लॉस हैं आप इन नुकसान को रियलायइज़्ड प्रॉफिट के बदले सेट-ऑफ कर सकते हैं , जिन पर आपको टैक्स देना हैं। ऐसा करने के लिए, आप नुकसान बुक कर सकते हैं , जिससे आपका प्रॉफिट कम हो जायेगा। जिसके […]
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Traders, If you hold stocks or mutual funds in your portfolio that have unrealised losses, you can set off these losses against realised profits, on which you have to pay taxes. To do this, you can book the losses, effectively reducing the realised gains and hence also reducing the tax payable. This act of booking […]
We started Rainmatter in 2016 because we realized that the Indian markets were quite shallow. The only way we could grow was if the investor participation in Indian capital markets grew, and we could only do so much on our own. So we started backing founders who were building things that could bring in the […]
जब हमने शुरू किया था तो हम यह जानते थे कि ट्रेडर्स के लिए टैक्सेशन कभी भी सरल नहीं था। हमने Varsity के इस मॉड्यूल में यह बताया है कि ट्रेडर्स और इन्वेस्टर्स के लिए टैक्सेशन कैसे काम करता है। हम उनकी मदद करने के लिए और भी बहुत कुछ कर सकते थे इसलिए हमने […]
When we started off, one of the things we were aware of was that taxation for traders was never simple. We have explained how taxation works for traders and investors in the Varsity module on taxation. We could always do more, so we partnered with Quicko, a startup to help people file taxes easily, via […]
Everything is fintech, and fintech is hot right now. According to CB Insights, Q1’21 was the best quarter on record for fintech, with $22.8 billion in funding. The same story is playing in India. According to Bain, fintech VC funding has grown from about $700 million in 2018 to $1.2 billion in 2020. Just halfway […]
Traders, If you hold stocks or mutual funds in your portfolio that have unrealised losses, you can set off these losses against realised profits on which you have to pay taxes. To do this, you can book the losses, effectively reducing the realised gains and hence also reducing the tax payable. This act of booking […]
It’s that time of the year when all of us have to sit down and plan our income tax returns. The last date to file your income tax returns for FY 2019-20 is December 31st, 2020, and traders need to file their Income Tax Returns (ITR) on time. Here’s why: the income tax department has […]
Traders, If you hold stocks or mutual funds in your portfolio that have unrealised losses, you can set off these losses against realised profits on which you have to pay taxes. To do this, you can book the losses, effectively reducing the realised gains and hence also reducing the tax payable. This act of booking […]
A super important part of trading is filing income tax returns (ITR), irrespective of whether you’re profitable or have made losses. Through the Markets and Taxation module on Varsity, we have not only explained all aspects of taxation, but also answered thousands of queries. It was obvious that just education isn’t enough, but we need […]
P&L statements typically display charges on an overall basis. So if you search between a time period, you’d see total charges across all trades in that period. Along with this, on Console, we now have scrip-wise charges. This means that you will be able to see what portion of the overall charge was due to […]
Traders, If you are investing or trading, you would need to declare your profits and losses for the financial year (FY) while filing your income tax returns (ITR). All equity investments under the head of capital gains, intraday equity trading as a speculative business, and derivatives trading as non-speculative business income. Check out the Varsity […]
Investors, We Indians love fixed income instruments, hence over Rs 110 lakh crores sit in bank fixed deposits (FD) and over Rs 10lk crores (over 50% of total MF AUM) in debt mutual funds. What most of us don’t know are the various alternatives that exist which are better than bank FD’s, namely Government Securities […]
Traders, Financial year (FY) 2017/18 is coming to a close on March 31st. We had a good run on the exchanges until Jan 2018, followed by the drawdown in the last two months. If you have net realized short-term capital gains this FY, and currently hold stocks which have unrealized losses – you have a tax […]
Traders, If you aren’t already aware, we run the following popular educational initiatives: Varsity – an easy to follow and in-depth guide to investing and trading. Z-Connect – a blog on everything about trading at Zerodha. Trading Q&A – a Q&A community to discuss and explore all things markets. Even though these 3 initiatives together are […]
Traders/Investors, I know with whatever little experience that two things govern success in the capital markets – being well informed about the industry and having the ability to make decisions without letting emotions get the better of you. We have – through Varsity, Trading Q&A, and other initiatives – tried to provide quality financial education to everyone looking for it. I’ve always wondered; what if […]
Traders, One of the most popular requests we get every tax filing season from traders on our education modules on taxation is, “Why don’t we also help them with tax filing and audits”. Introducing www.tradetax.in Tradetax is a Rainmatter initiative formed by a team of experienced Chartered accountant’s (CA) with trading knowledge. We are the same team which […]
Traders/Investors, Firstly, a question I have been asked quite often in the last few months. Why don’t we have special free trading offers for new clients? Why don’t we extend the 60 day challenge into a competition between traders and have a big lottery prize for the winner – the temptation of the lottery should get […]
“Check out our detailed module on taxation while trading/investing on varsity.” Note: This article might contain information that will not comply with the current tax laws. Please read the Taxation module on Varsity for updated information Traders, Taxation is an often neglected aspect especially more for people who trade/invest on the capital markets. With the […]
“Check out our detailed module on taxation while trading/investing on varsity.” Traders, FY 2014/15 has been a great year for the markets with over 30% increase in the benchmark Nifty index. There have been stocks that have been multi-baggers and there have been laggards as well. With a few days left for the end of […]
Dear fellow NRI Investor/Trader, The below blogpost is our effort to simplify what goes into opening a NRI trading and demat account for investing in the Indian Stock Exchanges through the PIS route. Open an NRE/NRO savings bank account in India NRE Account? Non-resident External Account (NRE) is a bank account where both the principal and […]
Finance is actually very simple, but it’s made to look complicated to justify fees – Morgan House on fool.com Dear Traders & Investors, The digital age has transformed the way in which we perform our day-to-day activities – be it reading books, watching movies, or trading stocks. Technology has penetrated in every aspect of our […]
Traders, “Q” is our new reporting/backoffice tool built to be your next generation – trading journal and financial assistant. Some features on the first release other than the fact that it works on all browsers 🙂 are Summary of your account shown using a donut chart Funds page to place/track withdrawal requests Portfolio to track […]
Traders, It has been a rocky few weeks for the equity markets, but as Zerodha, we believe that it is an intermediate downtrend in a bull market. It is the lack of liquidity in the markets which is causing the sudden upward/downward movements. A few important updates: 1. Commodity transaction tax, which was proposed in […]
Traders, Firstly it is important to understand the difference between Assessment Year(AY) and Financial Year(FY). If someone is saying that he has just filed his returns for AY 2012-13, this means it is for income in the financial year 2011-12(Apr 1st 2011 to March 31st 2012). So technically AY 2012-13 and FY 2011-12 are the […]
