Union finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced that the contentious long-term capital gains tax proposal on real estate is being revised. The announcement came after the Budget 2024-25 plan to remove indexation benefits for long-term capital gains on property sales faced strong criticism from opposition parties and tax experts. The Budget presented on July 23 had proposed a reduced …
The average student debt of $26,494 will see an increase of $1,245 Three million students with a HECS-HELP debt will be slugged an increase on what they owe on Saturday. Students will have a 4.7 per cent indexation increase applied to their HECS debt and other higher education loans. Almost three million university students will have their student loan repayment, …