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- 🔄 **Structural tax changes** to capital gains are extending the FY 2024–25 tax season, with the return deadline postponed to **September 15**, up from **July 31**.

- 📆 Taxpayers must now split capital gains into **two periods**: gains before and after **July 23, 2024**, each taxed at different rates with distinct reporting requirements.

- 💸 For short-term capital gains (STCG), gains before July 23 are taxed at **15%**, and gains after at **20%**.

- 📊 For long-term capital gains (LTCG) on mutual funds/stocks, gains before July 23 face a **10%** rate, and after, a **12.5%** rate.

- 🏠 LTCG on property is now taxed at either **12.5% without indexation** or **20% with indexation**, depending on the taxpayer’s choice.

- 🧮 New tax forms are structured to report these split periods separately, increasing the documentation burden for filers and professionals.

- 🛠️ The Income Tax Department released **revised tools** and **validation rules** to help identify reporting errors, including ‘Category-A’ and ‘Category-D’ faults.

- ⏳ Some filing tools like **ITR-3** were uploaded late, delaying processes and compressing timelines for tax professionals.

- 📈 In Assessment Year 2024–25, **7.28 crore** returns were filed: **45.77%** were ITR-1, **14.93%** ITR-2, **12.50%** ITR-3, **25.77%** ITR-4, and **1.03%** ITR-5 to ITR-7.

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