Foreign currency forward contract losses not speculative u/s 43(5) of Income Tax Act; no direct transaction link needed.

The loss arising on cancellation of foreign currency forward contracts cannot be treated as speculative loss u/s 43(5) - It is not required by the assessee to establish a one–to–one linkage between the forward contracts and the export/import transaction. What is required to look at is, whether the amount of hedging transaction is within the amount of underlying transaction of imports and export. .....

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