tax treatment of covered calls .. advice pls, page-2

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    All options writing or buying are capital gain/loss events if it is not your base income.
    Writing a covered call and keeping the premium on expiry is seen as a capital gain in the year the gain was aquired.
    It is no different than buying shares and selling them for a profit!
 
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