New Delhi, July 16 -- How you should treat or report tax related to equity trading while filing your income tax return depends on the type of transaction-futures and options (F&O), intraday trading, or delivery-based trading.

based trading involves holding stocks beyond a single trading day and may be classified as either capital gains or business income, based on the frequency.

Income from F&O and short-term delivery trades are treated as non-speculative business income, whereas intraday trades, where stocks are bought and sold within the same day, are considered speculative business income for taxation purposes.

You have to declare income from F&O or intraday trades in your income tax return (ITR) whether or not you make a profit, as...