What a trade actually costs once STT, exchange charges, stamp duty and GST are added
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 30 Oct 2026.A delivery round trip of 1,00,000 rupees each way costs about 233 rupees in charges with free brokerage: 210 of securities transaction tax, 15 of stamp duty, 6.45 of exchange charges, 1.20 of GST and 21 paise to SEBI. Brokerage is your broker's own rate and is added on top.
Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 30 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Choose the Segment, such as Equity delivery, Equity intraday or Equity options.
Enter the Buy and Sell price (or premium) and the Quantity.
Under Your broker's rate, pick a plan chip such as Discount broker, flat, or My own plan to type your broker's tariff.
Read Total charges on this round trip, Profit after charges and the break-even sell price.
Check each line in the charges table; STT, exchange, SEBI, stamp duty and GST rates come from the sources shown under Where the fixed rates come from.
Exactly one number in the cost of a trade belongs to your broker. Every other one is set by the government or the exchange and is identical for everybody. This page keeps the two apart, because confusing them is how people compare brokers badly.
Brokerage is yours to enter. A discount broker charges nothing on delivery and twenty rupees or 0.03% per order, whichever is lower, elsewhere. A bank broker charges several times that with no cap. Neither is printed here as fact: named starting shapes are offered, every field is editable, and the figure in the total is the one on your own tariff sheet.
Everything else is fixed. Securities transaction tax, the exchange charge, the SEBI turnover fee, stamp duty and GST are not editable, and each names the document it came from and the day it was read.
Securities transaction tax on derivatives rose on 1 April 2026: futures from 0.02% to 0.05%, options from 0.10% to 0.15% of premium. Those were themselves increases from October 2024, so most calculators are two revisions behind. Both figures are shown, and an older contract note can still be reconciled.
The other is quieter. The exchange charge broker pages quote is the transaction line alone; what leaves your account is that plus the investor protection contribution. NSE moved money between the two in February 2026, total unchanged: 307 rupees per crore on cash, 183 on equity futures, 3,553 on options premium, each side. This page uses the total.
GST is charged at 18% on brokerage, the exchange charge and the SEBI fee, and not on STT or stamp duty: GST is a tax on a service, and a tax is not a service. And stamp duty falls on the buyer alone, in every segment, since collection moved to the clearing corporations on 1 July 2020, which is why a round trip is not symmetric.
Not the total, but the break-even sell price: how far the price has to move before the trade has made anything. On a small trade with a flat fee that distance is startling, and it is the honest argument for fewer, larger trades.
Charges for NSE. Estimates only, not advice.
From 1 April 2026 a sold option is taxed at 0.15% of the premium and a sold futures contract at 0.05% of the traded value, both payable by the seller. Until 31 March 2026 those were 0.10% and 0.02%. Most calculators still show the older pair, which understates the cost of an F&O trade.
On a round trip of one lakh each way with free brokerage, roughly 233 rupees: 210 of securities transaction tax at 0.1% on both legs, 15 of stamp duty on the buy, 6.45 of exchange transaction charges, 1.20 of GST and 21 paise of SEBI turnover fee. Brokerage and the depository fee come on top.
GST is a tax on the supply of a service. Brokerage, the exchange transaction charge and the SEBI turnover fee are all charges for services and carry GST at 18%. Securities transaction tax and stamp duty are taxes in their own right rather than payment for anything, so GST is not applied to them.
No, and that is why this page asks for it rather than assuming it. Discount brokers commonly charge nothing on delivery and a flat twenty rupees or 0.03% per order, whichever is lower, elsewhere. Full-service brokers charge a percentage with no cap. Copy the figures from your own tariff sheet.
Segment chuniye, buy price, sell price aur quantity daaliye, aur apne broker ka rate type kar dijiye; baaki charges kaise lagte hain wo page khud jod deta hai. STT, exchange charge, SEBI fee, stamp duty and GST are fixed for everybody, so only the brokerage line is yours to set.
Break-even is the price the sell has to reach before the trade has made anything, once every charge is paid. On a small trade with a flat fee per order the distance is surprisingly large, which is the clearest argument against trading in tiny quantities. The figure is shown under the total here.
The taxes do, because STT, stamp duty, the SEBI fee and GST are the same wherever the trade is executed. The exchange charge is not: each exchange sets its own. The figure here is NSE's, from its circular of 27 February 2026. BSE's equity cash charge is supported by no BSE notice we could find, so enter your own.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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