Expert’s view: Budget 2026 should usher in simplification and provide tax certainty

Budget 2026: It would ordinarily be expected that the forthcoming Budget would refrain from proposing substantive changes to direct tax law, particularly to a statute that is yet to be operationalised. Any premature tinkering with the framework risks diluting the objective of introducing a clean-slate, simplified legislation.

Expert’s view: Budget 2026 should usher in simplification and provide tax certainty
Budget 2026: It would ordinarily be expected that the forthcoming Budget would refrain from proposing substantive changes to direct tax law, particularly to a statute that is yet to be operationalised. Any premature tinkering with the framework risks diluting the objective of introducing a clean-slate, simplified legislation.