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Practice Drills: Calculating Capital Gains Tax on Sample Trades

A hands-on practice course for investors who already know the basic rules of capital gains tax and want to get fast and accurate at applying them. Each lesson works through sample trades drawn from real NSE and BSE scenarios, building from single delivery trades to netting gains and losses across a full financial year.

Capital Gains TaxEquity TaxationTax Calculation Practice
MODULES
3
DURATION
~2 hrs
TRACK
Stock Market Basics

What You'll Master

How to classify a trade as short-term or long-term and apply the correct tax rate
How to compute cost basis correctly, including STT and brokerage adjustments
How the grandfathering clause changes the taxable gain on pre-2018 holdings
How to net gains and losses across multiple trades in the same financial year
How to handle a portfolio with mixed holding periods without misclassifying gains
Access Level
LEARNER
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Everything included
Full Text Playbooks
Actionable Exercises
Mobile Reading Mode
Lifetime Updates

Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: The Rules You Need Before You Calculate

2 Lessons
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Equity Holding Period and Tax Rates: The Quick Reference
Preview
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Cost Basis, STT, and Grandfathering: What Actually Counts

Chapter 2: Single-Trade Drills - Equity Delivery

3 Lessons
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Drill Set 1: Short-Term Capital Gains on Delivery Trades
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Drill Set 2: Long-Term Capital Gains and the Grandfathering Clause
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Drill Set 3: Loss-Making Trades and Set-Off Basics

Chapter 3: Multi-Trade and Portfolio-Level Drills

2 Lessons
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Drill Set 4: Netting Multiple Trades in a Single Financial Year
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Drill Set 5: Mixed Holding Periods in One Portfolio