INDIA MARKET LENS

Finance ministry weighs options on LTCG tax, decision likely in Union Budget 2027-28

· Business Today Mkts

The Centre explores LTCG tax relief to stem foreign fund outflows, but ensuring parity between domestic and overseas investors remains a key challenge.

Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.

  • A market-wide development: it reaches beyond any single stock.