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Nimbus Tech Pvt Ltd has a foreign subsidiary and enters forward exchange contracts, and its financial statements involve translating the foreign operation's accounts. Under the Income-tax Act, 2025, how are the foreign exchange gains or losses on these transactions treated?

Such gains or losses are treated as income or loss and computed under the notified income computation and disclosure standards. The rule applies to all foreign currency transactions, including monetary and non-monetary items, translation of foreign operations, forward exchange contracts and foreign currency translation reserves.

  1. AAs income or loss computed per income computation and disclosure standards notified under the Act, covering monetary and non-monetary items, translation of foreign operations, forward contracts and translation reservesCorrect
  2. BOnly realised gains on monetary items are taxed; forward contracts are ignored
  3. CThey are always capital in nature and exempt from tax
  4. DThey are computed under the Companies Act accounting standards only, irrespective of tax standards

Explanation

Section 43(1) treats gain or loss from changes in foreign exchange rates on foreign currency transactions as income or loss, computed per the notified income computation and disclosure standards. Section 43(2) extends this to monetary and non-monetary items, translation of foreign operations, forward contracts and foreign currency translation reserves. Hence ignoring forward contracts is wrong.

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