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STT increase in Budget 2026 shakes India’s $36 billion arbitrage trade

The government announced the decision in parliament on Sunday, saying the tax hike was aimed at curbing high-risk speculative trading in the options market

STT has not been done for revenue consideration; tried to deter speculation, says FM Sitharaman

The government in the Budget presented on February 1 raised securities transaction tax on futures and options

Why Govt believes that increase in STT is essential to protect investors

A report by the Securities and Exchange Board of India showed that 91% of retail individual traders incurred net losses in the Futures and Options (F&O) segment during FY 2024-25.

STT hike aimed at protecting household savings not raising revenue, says CEA Nageswaran

The Budget proposes to increase the STT on futures from 0.02% to 0.05% and options premium to 0.15% from 0.1%

STT collection for FY27 likely to be subdued due to falling market volumes

For FY27, the government has estimated that it will collect Rs 73,700 crore via STT, which is lower than the FY26 budget estimate of Rs 78,000 crore for STT collection. The levy has already seen a dip in FY26 due to reduced volumes especially in the F&O segment prompting the government to revise its STT collection estimate for the current financial year downwards to Rs 63,700 crore.

Nithin Kamath suggests alternative to ‘death by thousand STT hikes’: ‘If the govt wants to…’

A day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced higher STT on futures and options, Nithin Kamath said he was 'not sure this will do anything' if the stated objective was to reduce speculative activity in the futures and options (F&O) segment.

Large HFT traders Jane Street, Jump, Graviton, arbitrage MFs to feel the pinch of STT hike

While the large HFT firms use algos to make massive trades in F&O, arbitrage funds generally interplay between cash and F&O market to make a small profit

Was the STT hike necessary from the fiscal perspective?

To discipline excessive speculation by retail investors, the finance minister could have chosen a non-fiscal path

Derivatives market faces uncertain future after Union Budget 2026 delivers tax shock

The stock market selloff post-Budget is understandable as the sharp hike in STT has queered the pitch for traders

STT hiked in Union Budget to curb F&O frenzy, capital market stocks sink 15%

STT Hike: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to increase the STT on Futures from 0.02 percent to 0.05 percent, while hiking the STT on options to 0.15 percent.

Pitch report: Market players hope for lower STT, LTCG in Budget 2026

Market players are hoping for lower STT, STCG, and with some hoping for the removal of LTCG in the upcoming Union Budget.

Govt confident of meeting FY26 direct tax target despite likely STT shortfall

STT has seen slower growth this year as investor sentiment turned cautious amid market corrections in September and October.

SEBI initiates active deliberation on ways to deepen the cash market segment 

SEBI has received wide range of suggestions on the proposal to further deepen the cash market volume in equity segment.

Net direct tax revenue jumps 6.3% to Rs 11.89 lakh crore till Oct 12

Non-corporate tax, which includes individuals and HUFs, mop-up so far this fiscal stood at about Rs 6.55 lakh crore, up from over Rs 5.93 lakh crore in the same period of the last year

Flat STT mop-up raises doubts over ambitious Rs 78,000-crore target, say experts

The STT collections this year, so far, are approximately Rs 26,300 crore, similar to previous year’s collections around the same time.

STT to stay as it helps track big-ticket spending, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

STT was introduced in the 2004 Budget by then-Finance Minister P. Chidambaram with an aim to combat evasion related to capital gains.

MC Market Poll: Tax hikes will not have any major impact, say experts

Nearly 65 percent of the respondents have no plans to revise their Sensex or Nifty targets, post Budget

Cannot become Viksit Bharat without taxing capital gains appropriately: Fin Secy Somanathan

In what may be indicative of the government's stance on the capital gains tax regime going ahead, Somanathan said, "earners of capital gains are not poor and we will keep taxing them at a decent rate."

Capital-gains tax divides market, STT hike on F&O trades unlikely to deter retail traders

Market participants see LTCG/STCG hike as a body blow or the right move, believe STT increase won't deter retail traders

Market insiders expect STT hike in Budget 2024, expect HFTs to be hit hard

The capital markets regulator and the Economic Survey have raised concerns about the speculative nature of derivatives trading

Should traders be worried about the securities transaction tax in Union Budget 2024?

Budget 2024-25: Market participants are expecting a raise and for it to affect high-frequency traders the most

Budget 2024: FM urged to hike STT on HFT F&O trades to shield retail investors

Asset managers urge the FM to hike STT on high-frequency F&O trades over Rs 1,000 crore to protect retail investors from excessive speculation and losses

Samir Arora Vs Rajeev Mantri: Should policy support favour primary-market PE funds or to secondary-market FIIs?

Arora argued for easier capital-gains tax regime for foreign investors, even doing away with it entirely for both foreign and domestic investors, while Mantri called that ask "narrow and self-serving".

Relief for F&O traders, STT kept unchanged in the Interim Budget

With the sudden rise in F&O volumes, market participants had been worried that a tax hike to slow down the pace would be introduced

Budget Snapshot: STT collection overshoots estimates

Initially introduced for a short-term period, the STT has become a permanent fixture in the government's income statement