You can invest Rs 1.5 lakh under section 80C in any of the eligible tax saving avenues. Going by the Budget 2019 proposals, a salaried
Month: February 2019
Election Budget: BJP delivers booster shot as interim Budget attempts to pacify aggrieved constituencies
With an eye on upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the 2019 Union interim Budget had big sops for three specific groups – farmers, middle class and
Modi government’s success in direct transfer of benefits doesn’t reflect in subsidy numbers given in budget – The Financial Express
Union Budget 2019-20: The Union government’s subsidy bill will go up by over 10 per cent to nearly Rs 3 lakh crore in next fiscal. This
Budget 2019: No income tax up to Rs 5 lakh is good news, but how to claim the benefit of tax rebate – The Financial Express
Giving relief to people in the lower middle income group, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, while presenting the Budget 2019, announced total tax rebate to assessees
Modi’s last Budget hinges on double digit growth, heavy borrowing, jump in tax collections – The Financial Express
Union Budget 2019: A lot came out of the outgoing Modi government’s kitty — with an aggressive push to return back to power — in the Interim
Budget 2019: Modi’s capex thrust is over, it’s sops for 3 crore middle class, but the farm package is woefully small – The Financial Express
Despite the situation on the ground, the friendly statistics office may have raised its estimates of GDP growth significantly just the day before the budget,
Controlled hand-outs: Fiscal discipline maintained in an election year | Business Standard Editorials
As pre-election Budgets go, Piyush Goyal’s isn’t too bad. While vote-oriented announcements cost about Rs 1 trillion (or about half of 1 per cent of
Interim Budget 2019: Juggling populism with pragmatism | Business Standard Column
The challenge in any election year Budget before every finance minister is how to give sops to the electorate without straining the fiscal deficit. In
Interim Budget 2019: The formula for success of farm economy | Business Standard Column
The agriculture sector was quite the focus in the Union Budget 2018-19 and that continued in the interim Budget presented on February 1, 2019. Proposals
Not an Interim Budget: Mr Goyal’s first has all features of a full Budget | Business Standard Column
This is not an Interim Budget. What Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented on Friday has no resemblance with any of the previous three Interim Budgets presented by
Interim Budget 2019: A fairly balanced budget where no one can be unhappy | Business Standard News
The Finance Minister has taken a fairly pro-people stance in the Interim Budget announced today. Two things stand out. The first is the tax benefits
A budget for the ballot – The Hindu BusinessLine
The Modi government has fired the first salvo in its re-election campaign, with sops for everyone from the common man to the cow Prime Minister
Some sweeteners for aam aadmi – The Hindu BusinessLine
Two important changes reduce the tax outgo for the common man The Change There have been two important changes that will reduce the tax outgo
Four policy signals from the Budget – The Hindu BusinessLine
Real estate gets a fillip; taxpayers’ procedural glitches have been eased; assured pensions are back; and tax net is here to stay Most folks who
Elections and beyond – The Hindu BusinessLine
The Interim Budget 2019-20, in fact, suggests paradigm shifts in social security policies Interim Budgets often tend to be long on populism and short-termism. However,
A rocky ride for banks over the past five years – The Hindu BusinessLine
Deteriorating bank balance-sheets, steep rise in bad loans and no meaningful recovery in capex have left the sector reeling Even before the BJP-led government came
Smart populism: NDA’s last budget takes positive steps which also boost it politically, but risks remain–Times of India
Finance minister Piyush Goyal’s budget, the sixth and last one of the current government, was expected to be crafted with an eye on the forthcoming
Arun Jaitley on NSSO job data report: Absurd to say economy growing without job creation | Business News, The Indian Express
Reacting to the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) job survey of 2017-18 that records a surge in the unemployment rate to over 6 per cent,
The budget has exposed the NDA government’s nervousness | columns | Hindustan Times
The showstopper of this 2019 budget is the PM-Kisan Scheme (PMKS): a Rs 6,000 per year direct income transfer for small and marginal farmers with
Need to strictly adhere to a fiscal roadmap from now on | analysis | Hindustan Times
While the general backdrop for the presentation of any Union budget is noisy in a democracy like India, the economic backdrop for this year’s interim