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Defer capital gains tax on stocks

In what can only be described as a bad move for the capital market, the Jubilee administration recently reintroduced Capital Gains Tax (CGT), which will come into effect in three weeks’ time.

There is nowhere the impact of this tax would be felt more than the local stock market.

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