Economic Survey 2025-26: CEA recommends rationalising tax on debt-assets
The Hindu
Economic Survey 2025-26 advocates for tax rationalization on debt-assets to enhance investment in corporate bonds and savings.
The Economic Survey of India 2025-26 pitched for developing the debt securities by rationalising their taxation.
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The development of debt instruments like corporate bonds, as an investment avenue, would “reduce capital costs, mobilise savings efficiently, and offer households reliable income-generating products,” wrote the Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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Currently, short-term capital gains from debt instruments are taxed at the tax rates applicable to investors. For equities, however, holding less than a year attracts a capital gain tax of 20% and more than a year attracts 12.5% rate.
The survey noted that Indian household savings had financialised with equity assets (both direct stocks and mutual funds) constituting 23% of household assets in fiscal 2025, as against 19% five years earlier.
Economic Survey 2025-26 advocates for tax rationalization on debt-assets to enhance investment in corporate bonds and savings.
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