Author: Anil R Tikotekar

Union Budget 2018: In the Union Budget 2018, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that there has been a mass formalization of MSMEs after structural reforms

Given the tremendous success of the GST Council in making cooperative federalism work to smoothen the glitches in the GST process—the fact that GST revenues

For every rupee in the government coffer, 19 paise will come from market borrowing and other liabilities in 2018-19, even as it will spent 18

Sleep metaphors have always been popular in describing central budgets. These are variously called “dream” or “nightmare” budgets, usually depending on which side you are

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may have blotted his copybook by conceding a slippage in his fiscal deficit target of 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP)

The Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, has presented a Budget that looks good from all sides, but one that deserves closer scrutiny to better understand the

Budgeting in India has returned to its original purpose: to raise revenue in small bits and to spend wisely in small bits. When nothing much

Budget 2018 came out fairly balanced, with disappointments on the income tax and LTCG tax fronts for households and markets, respectively. Further, the government’s projections

Every budget has a context, every budget must have a goal. The context of Budget 2018-19 was graphically described in the Economic Survey: The macro-economic

This government is especially good at optics, at managing public perceptions to persuade people that it is working for them, rather than doing so. So

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. In Anna Karenina, only if a person is satisfied on all

The budget for 2018, at its core, re-enacts a familiar tension of Indian policymaking. On the one hand, it reassuringly tries to respond to genuine

Former finance minister P Chidambaram slammed the Budget 2018 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament on Thursday and said the proposals should have