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.
Mastek shares defy weak markets, gain 3% after Staffordshire County council picks company for Oracle Cloud transformation
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October 8, 2026