Union Budget 2025: In the Union Budget 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman revealed an increase in the basic tax exemption limit in the new tax regime. The limit has been raised from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 4 lakh, providing a significant benefit to a large portion of salaried taxpayers. With no income tax burden … Read more
The Economic Survey for 2024-25 revealed that the annual growth rate of agricultural income has been 5.23% over the past ten years. Agriculture and its associated activities have always been a crucial pillar of India’s economy, playing a substantial role in both national income and employment generation. However, ahead of the Budget for 2025, there … Read more
The finance ministry could take forward further simplification and rationalisation of the tax deducted at source regime in the Union Budget 2025-26 while a more comprehensive revamp of the Income Tax Act, 1961, could take longer. According to sources, the Budget is likely to announce further streamlining of TDS rates with a more simplified slab … Read more
International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) first deputy managing director Gita Gopinath said that the global body prefers a progressive tax structure. In an interview, Gopinath, who is in India, said there should be better implementation of what’s there in terms of capital income taxes, property taxes can be encoded into the tax system properly. “With wealth … Read more
Capital Gains Tax: After Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made an announcement in the Union Budget regarding the reduction of tax on long-term capital gains from 20% with indexation benefits to 12.5% without indexation benefits, an amendment was introduced to The Finance Bill, 2024. This amendment allows taxpayers to select the tax rate that is more advantageous … Read more
Long-term capital gains tax: The Centre announced on Tuesday a significant decision that offers relief to homeowners regarding Long-Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax on real estate. Homeowners will now given the option to choose between two tax rates: a 20% rate with the indexation benefit, or a 12.5% rate without indexation. This policy shift follows … Read more
The NDA government has earned Rs 98,681 crore from long term capital gains tax on listed equities in 2022-23, which is about 15 per cent growth over the last year, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Chaudhury also shared collections from Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax between fiscal … Read more
Union Budget income taxes: In the first Budget of the Modi 3.0 government, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced many important changes to income taxes. The most prominent was the tweaking of tax slabs and increase in Standard Deduction limit under the New Tax Regime. However, she didn’t introduce any change in the Old Tax Regime. … Read more
CNN — When she took the keys to 10 Downing Street in the wake of Boris Johnson’s political demise, Liz Truss promised to “ride out the storm” of Britain’s economic crisis. Just over six weeks later, she was engulfed by a hurricane of her own making. It was a humiliating end to a calamitous premiership … Read more
London CNN — Liz Truss’ first full week as British Prime Minister has not been an easy one. It began with the pound crashing to its lowest level in decades following her government’s mini-budget last Friday. It ended with her meeting the UK’s independent financial forecaster and having to explain herself after a week of … Read more