Books of accounts for intraday traders

Taxation
1

Do we need to maintain book of accounts for intraday trading (planning to report intraday losses in itr) ?

2

You don’t have to maintain seperate account of all your trades. If you are trading using Zerodha, you can download the Tax P&L report on Console, which will include all the reports related to your trading.

1 Like
3

@Quicko
I read that “book of accounts” is required if business/profession income is >=1.2 lacs (or may be 2.5lacs) or turnover >= 25 lacs.

Now my use case is:

  • I have salary income of 7 lacs.
  • I have capital gains(short+long) of 3 lacs.
  • I have intraday gains of 50k.

I will be filling ITR3 showing intraday as business income. So this means I need not maintain book of accounts as my business income is just 50k.

Is my understanding correct?

4

@siva any hints or redirect?

5

@NoPrivacy

Hi, Yes you need to file ITR 3 and no need to maintain any books of accounts.

6

Thanks

7

I think need to maintain books of account as income > 2.5 lacs