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Benefits of indexation: How it helps you save tax?

Indexation is a strategy for avoiding taxation of investment profits.

It adjusts acquisition costs for inflation and helps reduce capital gains tax.

Indexation is applicable to long-term assets like real estate and debt funds.


CII is used to estimate the annual rise in prices due to inflation.

It helps lower taxable income and reduces long-term capital gains.

Indexation is only accessible if the assets are held for a specific period of time.

For immovable property, this period is two years. 

Indexation makes debt funds an excellent fixed-income investing option.

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Indexation enables the tax payer to account for how inflation will affect acquisition costs. In essence, this reduces the amount of capital gains that would be subject to tax.

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Benefits of indexation: How it helps you save tax?

Indexation enables the tax payer to account for how inflation will affect acquisition costs. In essence, this reduces the amount of capital gains that would be subject to tax.

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