No Grandfathering in 2024?
“On February 1, 2018, when Mr. Arun Jaitley raised Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax on listed shares from 0% to 10%, he had an important accompanying statement in his budget speech: “…all gains up to 31st January, 2018 will be grandfathered.” This ensured that the tax was prospective from February 1, 2018 and not applicable retrospectively on accumulated unrealised gains on securities held for many years before that date. Crucially, the grandfathering clause is not present in Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech of July 23, 2024, in which LTCG tax was increased from 10% to 12.5%.”