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It is written in their website, that to do F&O audit, one needs to take their business plans.

Rs 1,500 one is for capital gains. F&O Audit doesn't come under capital gains.

Even Rs 6,500 is reasonable. CA's charge anywhere from Rs 10,000 to 15,000 which is ridiculous.

With Zerodha's Excel Sheets, things should get even easier.

Zerodha, if you guys can strike a deal with ClearTax or any other online CA's who file ITR4 for Rs 5,000 or so, it would be a game changer for you guys.

Support this idea 100%. Since you are one of the brokers that has the expertise related to tax matters, you should have this help extended to all who wish to file tax return through you.

AFAIK as per rules, every CA is alloted a quota of 45 audits, or clients
whose audits they can do, so CA's prefer doing audits of
corporates, as the mullah is much more there, than doing
audits of individual assesse's

This would most likely if you have used unrealized profits or credit from sale of stocks/options held with you previously, to buy more. When you sell an option, the credit will be received on T+1 and not on the same. But if you use the funds on the same day to buy more options and keep such positions overnight, NSE will put a short penalty.

Like Steve has put in correctly, CA's have a limit on how many audits they do per year. So most of these big firms, don't really like to go for retail like us.

That said, we understand that as and when IT department is getting stronger because of technology, it is imperative that people take care of their taxation.

So very soon, we will have a book keeping solution on Q and also a trial balance for the trading account with us. That would mean that a CA would then need to only sign on that piece of document and would not be required for anything else.

I disagree.

If no one was interested in retail, why would Y-Combinator - One of the biggest angel investors in the USA buy a 7% stake in ClearTax - Whose main focus is retail.

ClearTax is willing to Audit F&O ITR4 for Rs 6,500 but I am sure if a big firm like Zerodha ties up with it, they would definitely be willing to give atleast 20% discount - Which would come to Rs 5,000.

Last year, they tied up with Paytm to provide its users with e-tax filing.

So, anything is possible. Why doesn't Nithin just write an email to those guys. No harm in trying, right?

The crowd that trades indian market (F&O), hmmmm... hmm... u might be surprised is a disastrously low number.. Probably between 1 lk to 2lk(trade and declare F&O trading for taxes)..

The crowd that cleartax is after are the ITR 1 and ITR 2 guys, which is probably between 10 to 15 crore Indians. That is a piece of action, every tax filing business in the world would want to go after. Best part is there no limitation on how many ITR1 or 2 1 CA can file.

Still not sure if cleartax will do an audit for that less especially with the restriction on how many a CA can do in a year, but as you said no harm in giving it a shot..

First in a series of three posts to help you understand option greeks and its implication while trading options. http://zerodha.com/z-connect/queries/stock-and-fo-queries/say-hello-to-the-greeks