The people are united. Detained protestors are repeatedly being released by the people on the streets!
Jantar Mantar 2.0 is on!
Gyanesh will soon be gone!
Every time the Sensex falls, Modi govt gives the same answer - global factors. Oil, wars, the Fed. Never its own decisions.
But global factors did not write India's last 5 Budgets. This govt did.
In 2004, UPA govt made a clear bargain with investors. No long term capital gains tax on listed shares & in its place a small Securities Transaction Tax. One tax. Simple and predictable.
In 2018 Modi government broke that bargain. LTCG came back at 10%, but STT was never withdrawn. Since then, investors have paid twice on the same trade.
& since then taxes have moved in only one direction -
🔹LTCG raised to 12.5% in 2024
🔹STCG raised from 15% to 20% in 2024
🔹STT on futures raised from 0.01% to 0.05% since 2023 fivefold increase
🔹STT on options raised from 0.05% to 0.15% a threefold increase
Share buyback proceeds brought under capital gains tax in 2026
When the latest STT hike was announced on Budget Day this February, the Sensex fell more than 1,000 points in a single session. Broking & exchange stocks fell as much as 6 to 8 %
Today the Nifty is below 23,000, roughly 13% under its 52 week high of 26,373. Foreign investors are pulling money out. Crores of retail investors, who were told the stock market was their way to share in India's growth are watching their savings shrink while the tax on every rupee they earn, trade and withdraw keeps rising.
Singapore does not tax capital gains on shares held as personal investments. India taxes the gain taxes the transaction, taxes the dividend & then adds surcharge, cess, GST and stamp duty on top.
And while capital at home is taxed at every step, an Indian conglomerate has just announced an $18 billion investment in United States with its chairman crediting President Trump for reviving manufacturing in America.
A government that wants Indian savings & foreign capital to build the economy cannot keep raising the price of entry.
Markets fall for many reasons. Raising taxes at every turn is the one reason entirely within this government's control.
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How does one get away with this? It's obviously the same business - if a call gets missed, try again with a different number. Seriously?
As one with young kids & aging parents, seeing '5 missed calls', is scary AF! But hey, yahan sab chalta hai, right?
@DoT_India
how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????
I went to the bank today and asked for a ₹1 Crore home loan.
Bank Manager -> "Sir, what is your current salary, net worth, and repayment plan?"
Me: "Look, currenly i am growing little and a middle class today, but in 20 years, my personal net worth will hit 30 crorejust Trust me !!
Bank Manager: "Great! How?"
Me: "Just trust the macro projections! No details needed!"
They denied the loan and asked security to escort me out.
The Lesson? Any dream without a concrete plan, tax relief, or job security is just an electoral headline!
Meanwhile, back in 2026 -> The salaried worker pays 30% TDS today, faces 18% GST on basic survival, gets $0 layoff protection, and is told to survive on 20-year fantasy GDP numbers! 😭
You can't pay today's EMI with a 20-year GDP projection! ABOLISH PERSONAL INCOME TAX NOW!