Long-term capital losses from non-taxable sources can't offset gains or be carried forward for future taxable income.
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....Set off and carried forward of long-term capital loss against the long-term capital gain - if the loss arising in the previous year was under a head not chargeable to tax, it could not be allowed to be carried forward and absorbed against income in a subsequent year, from a taxable source - HC....
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