In a big relief to minority shareholders, now buyback of shares will again be taxed as capital gains tax and hence long term ...

The Union Budget has reworked the taxation of share buybacks, shifting proceeds into the capital gains framework and undoing ...

The move to treat the proceeds of buybacks as capital gains and not dividends addresses a complex and widely criticised tax ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a major overhaul of the tax treatment of share buybacks today, marking a shift ...

Union Budget 2026 proposes to tax buy-back for all types of shareholders as capital gains. However, to disincentivize this ...

Until now, share buybacks were taxed in a split manner — the proceeds were treated as dividend income, while the ...

Budget 2026 puts buybacks back in the spotlight, reshaping how India Inc returns cash and how investors respond. But in this ...

The Finance Minister said the revised structure will close loopholes that encouraged listed companies to prefer buybacks over ...

According to Prime Database, only one company has announced a buyback so far in 2026, amounting to Rs 34 crore. This compares with buybacks worth Rs 19,716 crore announced by 14 companies in 2025 and ...

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) To protect minority shareholders and curb tax arbitrage by promoters, Finance Minister Nirmala ...

Budget 2026-27 proposes taxing share buybacks as capital gains for all shareholders. Promoters face higher buyback tax to curb arbitrage.

The GM Board of Directors has approved another sizable stock buyback, authorizing a new $6 billion share repurchase program ...