In engineering circles, efficient organisations live by KISS — Keep It Simple, Stupid. Ironically, simplicity is the hardest thing to achieve. In times past, budgets typically meant higher taxes or cumbersome compliance regimes that empowered tax authorities and unnerved citizens. For a generation raised on “tax terror,” Budget 2026 marks a decisive break from that legacy. […]
The Income Tax Department has issued a clarification on how “buyback tax” has changed with Union Budget 2026, to the benefit of small shareholders. Image for representational purposes only. (Pixabay) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech today, proposed to shift back buyback tax to a capital gains framework from dividend treatment in effect […]
In this pre-Budget discussion, tax experts Sonu Iyer (National Leader, People Advisory Services – Tax, EY India), Tanushree Roy (Executive Director, Nangia & Co), and Richa Sawhney (Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat) join Shishir Sinha to decode key expectations from Budget 2026. From income tax regime changes, customs duty rationalisation, GST reforms, international taxation challenges, to […]