LTCG to Loot Middle Class | How will removing indexation in calculating LTCG tax affect everyone?
Today, FM @nsitharaman reduced Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) Tax on properties to 12.5%, but cleverly removed indexation, which adjusts the property price at the time of sale, to account for inflation. How does this impact us? Let's break it down with simple math.
Suppose you bought an apartment in January 2009 for โน50 lakhs. Fifteen years later, you sold it today for โน1.5 crore. With indexation, the โน50 lakhs you paid 15 years ago is considered to be worth โน1.32 crore today. So, the net profit or capital gain is only โน17.5 lakhs, and you'd pay only โน3.5 lakhs as Capital Gains Tax at the rate of 20%.
But without indexation, your capital gain now is โน1 crore, and at 12.5%, you'd end up paying โน12.5 lakhs in tax. Essentially, the government takes โน9 lakhs more than the old method.
Your net profit after buying a property and holding it for 15 years is just โน5,01,825. You might have paid much much more in loan interest alone. Was it really worth it? Do you call this cleverness or crookedness? #Budget (1/3)
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