Electronic Gold Receipt

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Bonus sharesAdditional shares issued free to existing shareholders in proportion to their holding — no tax at allotment, a nil cost of acquisition, and a fresh holding period from the allotment date.
• Cost Inflation IndexAn index notified by the CBDT each year, with 2001-02 as the base of 100, used to restate the cost of a long-term capital asset in current rupees so that inflation is not taxed as capital gain.
• DematerialisationConverting securities held as physical certificates into book-entry holdings: the certificates are defaced, mutilated and surrendered to the issuer, and an equivalent quantity is credited to the holder's demat account.
• KYC Registration AgencyA SEBI-created agency that holds an investor's verified KYC record centrally, so that one KYC completed with any securities market intermediary works with all the others.
• Market Linked DebentureA debenture whose return is linked to an underlying index or security rather than being a fixed coupon; since Section 50AA its gains are short-term capital gains taxed at slab, whatever the holding period.
• Price discoveryThe process by which the free interaction of buyers and sellers produces a price that reflects every participant's expectation of what the underlying will be worth at a future date.