Short-term gains: 20% on listed equity, your own slab rate on everything else
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 25 Sept 2026.Sell too soon and the gain is short term, which is usually the more expensive outcome. Listed shares and equity funds are taxed at a flat 20% since July 2024, raised from 15%. Everything else is added to your income and taxed at whatever slab you fall in, so the rate depends on what else you earned that year.
The rates are those in force for sales made on or after 23 July 2024, and a sale from 1 April 2026 is taxed under the Income-tax Act, 2025, which renumbered the sections without moving a rate. Surcharge is not included: it starts once total income passes ₹50 lakh, is capped at 15% for these gains, and depends on income this page never asks for. Exemptions for reinvestment under sections 54 and 54F are not included either.
Estimates only, not tax advice. Last checked 25 Sept 2026. The rates, the holding periods and the 23 July 2024 cut-off were read against the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2024 as published in the Gazette of India on 16 August 2024, with the CBDT FAQs in PIB release 2036604 alongside it; the 4% cess against the Finance Bill, 2026, which left every rate above exactly where the 2024 Act put it.
The Cost Inflation Index, which only the 20% route on older property uses, comes from the Income Tax Department's own chart and runs to 2026-27. Unlike everything else here it was read on 25 Sep 2026 through the Internet Archive's copy of 6 Aug 2026, because the department's site refuses automated requests (the chart has since moved to a new address on the same site, confirmed on 30 Oct 2026). If the indexed figure is the one you are relying on, check that chart yourself before you file. Check your own case with a tax adviser either way.
| What you sold it for | ₹9,00,000 |
| What you paid | − ₹5,00,000 |
| Costs of buying and selling | – |
| Gain | ₹4,00,000 |
| Exemption | − ₹1,25,000 |
| Taxed at 12.5% | ₹34,375 |
| Health and education cess, 4% | + ₹1,375 |
| Tax payable | ₹35,750 |
Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 25 Sept 2026); they may have changed since.
Pick the asset chip for what you sold, for example Listed shares or equity mutual fund.
Enter Bought on and Sold on dates less than the long-term period apart, so the badge shows Short term.
Fill in What you paid, What you sold it for and any Costs of buying and selling.
For assets other than listed equity, choose Your income tax slab, since the gain is taxed at that rate.
Read Tax you would pay with the cess included, and open How this was worked out for the arithmetic.
The Capital Gains Tax Calculator works out what is owed when you sell shares, a mutual fund, property or gold, using the rules that came into force on 23 July 2024. It takes what you paid, what you sold for, the two dates and the costs in between, and gives the tax, the effective rate and what you keep.
How long you held the asset decides everything else. Since July 2024 there are only two holding periods: twelve months for listed securities, twenty-four months for everything else. Sell before that line and the gain is short term.
Listed shares and equity funds have their own pair of rates. Short term is 20%, raised from 15%; long term is 12.5%, raised from 10%, and the first ₹1,25,000 of long-term gain in a year is exempt. Every other long-term gain is 12.5% with no indexation, while short-term gains are added to your income and taxed at your slab rate, which is why the calculator asks for it.
The rest of the article, and all 7 questions about Capital Gains Tax Calculator, are on the Capital Gains Tax Calculator page.
Capital gains tax depends first on how long the asset was held. Listed shares held over twelve months, or other assets over twenty-four, are long term and taxed at 12.5%. Anything sold sooner is short term: 20% on listed equity, or your own slab rate on everything else. Cess of 4% is added at the end.
The first ₹1,25,000 of long-term gain from listed shares and equity mutual funds is exempt in each financial year, raised from ₹1,00,000 in July 2024. Only the gain above that figure is taxed, at 12.5%. The exemption covers all such gains in the year together, not each sale separately.
Sales made on or after 1 April 2026 fall under the Income-tax Act, 2025: section 196 for short-term listed equity, section 198 for long-term listed equity and section 197 for everything else long term. Earlier sales use sections 111A, 112A and 112 of the 1961 Act. The rates are identical.
Debt mutual funds bought on or after 1 April 2023 count as short term however long they are held, so the gain is added to your income and taxed at your slab rate with no indexation. Units bought before that date can still become long term after twenty-four months and are taxed at 12.5%.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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