In her budget speech on Tuesday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to hike the short-term capital gains tax on all listed equity instruments to 20% from 15%. Long-term capital gains on listed equity instruments and specified financial and non-financial assets have been hiked to 12.5% from 10%. Moreover, the indexation benefit has also been removed from all the assets for computing long-term capital gains which will disallow any inflation adjustment, increasing the tax outgo.
