At the time of calculating your Capital Gains if the sale receipts from a Capital Asset are less than cost of acquisition (whether indexed or not) and expenses on transfer; instead of a Capital Gain you incur a Capital Loss. Current year lossesBoth short term capital loss and long term capital loss must be reported in your tax return.If you have sold equity shares and have incurred a short term loss, although you have no tax liability itu2019s important you report this loss in your return. While calculating your final tax liability this loss can be adjusted against other capital gains. Since this capital loss can be set off against capital gains, it reduces your total taxable income. Do note that short term capital loss can be set off against long term or short term gain, however long term losses can only be set off against long term gains. Also, any long term loss on equity shares or equity funds is a dead loss and cannot be set off or carried forward.Any loss which is left after adjusting can be carried be carried forward and adjusted against capital gains in future years.On ClearTax, you donu2019t need to worry about adding them for carry forward u2022 any unadjusted losses if they are eligible to be carried forward they are picked up in the u2018loss summaryu2022 tab automatically within ClearTax.Previous year lossesIf you have unadjusted losses from previous years, do remember to add them while filing your return in the current year. To understand how to add previous year losses in your tax return u2022 click here. Do note that for the IT Department there is no way to know carry forward of your losses unless you have added them into your return each year.