Tell your tax guy you traded in an asset called Bitcoin, and that you need to show your profits as Capital Gains. Then give him your transaction history, including all Sells you did in the last financial year. If he still does not get it, tell him to think of it as a new stock scrip called BTCX and to use your txn history for comptutation. If he still does not get it, run from that guy.
I think, by trade, it means buying & selling. But, I never buy. I earn and sell. So, I guess, capital gain does not apply to me. Everything that I have sold needs to be shown as earning. By transaction history, do you mean the blockchain Tx details ? That is Hebrew to him. I like your idea of showing it as an asset. I am planning to show it to him as 'Earning from Digital Asset Sales' and provide bank transaction details against those sales.From the research paper by Nishith Desai there is some basis for considering Bitcoin profits as capital gains. That much is the easy part. When you obtained the asset (earned / bought / mined / begged / borrowed / stole) there is a "cost of acquisition" in INR. When you sell there is a "Sale Price". The difference is your profit (Capital Gains) and taxed. That's the simplest principle. By 'Transaction History' I mean list down all the Bitcoin you sold in the last financial year. Then tell list down how you obtained those bitcoin, along with acquisition costs. Then you find the difference.
If you have mining "income" things get far more interesting, and you just need to apply some common sense in terms of what you can justify to the IT department if you are called for audit. For mining, cost of server and electricity may be considered as cost of acquisition - but god knows what the IT department will think of it... That is beyond the scope of this discussion as there are no precedents or authoritative rules on this. Safe to say this is a gray area and you are really on your own.
Disclaimer: I am not a qualified tax consultant.
