I am a Senior Retired person without any Pension. My savings have been invested including in equity shares since year 1982 onwards (now under Demat). However, as I do not remember the initial investment made at cost nor the dates/year, is there a way to get this info now, before effecting sale of equity shares and to compute the applicable LTCG, for IT purposes? Kindly clarify.

I have 2 demat account but some shares are common across both accounts. How will the principle of FIFO apply here for calculation of LTCG? Will the date of acquisition of a share be that demat account specific or across both accounts which ever date is the earliest. Please guide

I am a senior citizen aged 72 years, based in Calcutta ,Engineer by profession, retired voluntarily about 17 years back from a very well known MNC. I had started buying shares about 30 years back, applying for new shares, also from the market and availed of the bonus shares or special offers from my holdings.My holding includes from my erstwhile company which had offered their shares to their employees too. I have small /medium holdings in about 50 active companies,mostly big corporates and apart from a very few, are actively traded. The problem has arisen now that I have decided to offload my shares due to advancing age and indifferent health. I seem to have misplaced my dates of purchases of most of the holdings. For capital gains calculations one requires the dates of purchases. I believe there is a cutoff date 31.01.2018 which is taken as the date of purchase for very old share purchases. My query ,what does very old share purchases mean, 10/15/20 years or more? Are there any other method for this purpose? If there be any pl elucidate. Will communicating with the share depts or the share managing associates of these 50 companies help,although it will be tedious and time consuming. Awaiting your advice eagerly.

I have some EIL dhares allotedcas employee in 1997 i dont remember payment done ( purchase price ) I wanr to sale them all i read the cost of procurement will be the fmv of shares ( oeak price ? ) as on 31 st January 2018 And the ltcg will be No of shares sold X ( price of sale - fmv on 31 January 2018 ) ? And 10 % of this as LTCG ?

Sir, I have purchased shares some 15-20 years back, they have been demated earlier. I dont know(remember) the purchased price and date of purchase. If i sell the shares, how can i show the long term capital gain tax in I/TAX return?