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No law sets a limit on gold at home. There is an instruction the tax department gave its officers in May 1994, a government statement from 2016, and tribunals that read them differently. Until the rule is clear, your papers decide what you keep.
If you bought your gold bond on the stock exchange, you now pay 12.5% tax on your gain when it matures. This started on 1 April 2026.
Customers of one gold app were saying this to each other. A judge wrote it in his order in 2026. It is not proven.
In a 2025 survey, only 18% of gold buyers said their jewellery carried the six-character hallmark code. The rest named a wrong length, said there was no code, or did not know.
About 16% of a gold jewellery bill is making charge and the tax on it. You never get it back when you sell.