Budget 2018: Betting on stock market boom? Capital gains tax may end party
Brokerages like Kotak Securities say the Modi govt may make it harder for investors to claim exemptions on capital gains from equity investments BUDGET NEWS : The taxman may additionally emerge as being a speed bump for the Indian stock market place, which like its opposite numbers across the world has marched to more than one facts within the beyond 12 months. Brokerages including Kotak Securities say high Minister Narendra Modi's administration can also make it harder for traders to say exemptions on capital profits from equity investments when the federal budget is announced on February 1. Modi's circulate in 2016 to scrap high-price forex payments and the implementation of the new income tax closing July have hurt demand and sales, forcing the authorities to borrow greater. "The authorities has to find avenues for producing additional revenue to bridge the monetary deficit," Shefali Goradia, partner at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, said in ...