The Indian government will implement angel tax from April 1, 2024. The Centre has not taken back the proposal to implement the angel tax on startups as the Finance Bill 2023 got passed in Parliament on Friday.
Previously, many stakeholders had suggested the exclusion of investments from foreign companies in startups from the Angel Tax regime. However, the Finance Bill 2023 states that there is no change in its intent to implement angel tax.
According to the finance ministry's background note, these changes will be for the assessment year 2024-25 and for financial year 2023-24.
"Angel tax-deferred to 1st April