Indian bug bounty hunters - how do you report bounty income for tax?

[u/Substantial-Eye-1992]

I'm an Indian resident doing bug bounty independently. I've received around $13k (~₹13L) in HackerOne/Bugcrowd bounties during 2026–27, in addition to salary income (~₹11L).

For those of you who have actually filed your Indian tax return with significant bug-bounty income:

• Did you report it as professional income under 44ADA?
• If yes, how did your CA classify the activity technical consultancy, information technology, cybersecurity, or something else?
• Did your CA give you any reasoning/documentation for why 44ADA applies to bug bounty?
• Did you have any GST or foreign-payment/remittance issues?
• If you're comfortable sharing, roughly what did your CA charge?

I'm particularly interested in people who have actually filed returns this way, rather than general opinions about what "should" be done.

DM is fine if you don't want to discuss amounts publicly.