The Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has urged the government to restore the indexation benefit for debt mutual funds and extend the grandfathering provision for these benefits until July ...

While equity and hybrid assets grew 1.8 times since November 2023, debt assets grew only 1.3 times. A combination of the 2023 ...

It has been half a year since the government announced changes to student debt rules to build hype for the federal budget, but the legislation only became law on Tuesday night. The changes will mean ...

HECS balances are set to rise again this year as indexation is expected to sit at 4.8 per cent. A modest decrease from last year’s eye-watering 7.1 per cent, the upcoming round of indexation on June 1 ...

The architect of the HECS-HELP system says misinformation is creating anxiety in the community about the effect of inflation on student debt. Abolishing indexation on HECS-HELP debts would not put ...

The government on Tuesday proposed reducing the long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax on immovable properties to 12.5 per cent from 20 per cent, but removed the indexation benefits to adjust for ...

Budget 2024 scrapped the indexation benefit—a provision that allowed adjusting prices for inflation—to make tax rates uniform across asset classes. For real estate, the tax on long-term capital gains ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in Budget 2024, announced the scrapping of indexation benefits on property sales, prompting real estate experts to call the move “negative” for the sector from an ...

Union govt softens stance on LTCG tax, offers choice between 20% with indexation or 12.5% without. Relief for property owners pre-July 23, 2024. The Union government on Tuesday softened its stand on a ...

The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement in the Union Budget about doing away with indexation for computing long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax has not drawn much enthusiasm ...

Now that we are into March, the focus is on making various tax-saving investments. We will discuss a concept that is not about tax efficiency in the current financial year, but on an investment that ...

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