Best of BS Opinion: Taxing investments, rookie investor's mistake, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday

The Union finance ministry is in the process of preparing the Budget for the next fiscal year, and it will be presented in less than two months from now. Aside from fiscal calculations for the current and next fiscal years, it would also be important to see how the government moves forward on tax reforms to strengthen its finances over the medium term.

Our lead editorial argues that the government should remove the distinction between how the income earned through labour and capital is taxed. Income from different types of investment is also treated differently and the distinction should