{"id":48638,"date":"2026-05-30T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48638"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:57:04","slug":"capital-gains-tax-on-share-trading-and-real-estate-transactions-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/capital-gains-tax-on-share-trading-and-real-estate-transactions-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital gains tax on share trading and real estate transactions increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 30: The government has amended the earlier provision related to capital gains tax through the Finance Bill, 2083, a subsidiary part of the Executive Budget Proposal of the upcoming fiscal year 2083\/84.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Finance Bill presented in the Federal Parliament on Friday, capital gains tax on share trading and real estate transactions has increased. The government has introduced a provision of increasing the tax on the profit while selling securities of listed companies.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that the tax on the profit will be final with a seven and a half percent tax on shares sold after more than one year and a ten percent tax on shares sold within one year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, under the Income Tax Act, gains earned by Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON)-listed entities were taxed at five percent for owning within 365 days by a resident natural person and seven and a half percent for ownership of more than 365 days.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Finance Bill has amended the provision for non-business taxable assets (land and buildings) with a five percent capital gains tax if held for five years or more, and a seven and a half percent tax if held for less than five years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a capital gains tax of 7.5 percent will be applied to property held for more than five years and 10 percent for property held for less than five years.<\/p>\n<p>The government through the Appropriation Bill has stated that capital gains tax will not be imposed on the amount up to the government-assessed value set for property registration while acquiring land for carrying out development projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 30: The government has amended the earlier provision related to capital gains tax through the Finance Bill, 2083, a subsidiary part of the Executive Budget Proposal of the upcoming fiscal year 2083\/84. According to the Finance Bill presented in the Federal Parliament on Friday, capital gains tax on share trading and real estate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48640,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638\/revisions\/48640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}