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Online news agencies to attract service tax
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Service Tax rates unchanged
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Account auditing for all income above Rs 15 lacs
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More services to be brought under tax net
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Rationalisation of customs duty on gaming software
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Toys exempted from excise duty, to become cheaper
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Jewellery to be more expensive
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Monorail granted project import status
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CDs to be cheaper
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Excise duty on CFL halved to 4%
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Customs duty on Gold and Platinum hiked
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Refrigerators to be costlier
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Televisions to be costlier
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Mobile phones to become cheaper
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Peak customs duty unchanged at 10%
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Cement to be costlier
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Air conditioners to be costlier
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Oppostion walkout in Lok Sabha
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Uproar in Parliament over hike in fuel prices
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Excise on all non smoking tobacco raised
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7.5% duty on petrol and diesel restored
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5% duty on crude petroleum restored
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Fuel prices likely to go up
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Excise duty on petrol and diesel raised to Rs 1/litre
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Cigarettes to be costlier
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Excise on large cars,SUVs, MUV raised to 22%
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Partial rollback in Excise Duty from 10% to 8%
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Presumptive tax limit raised to Rs 60 lacs
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Investment linked deduction benefit for 2 Star hotels
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Deduction of Rs 20000 on investment in infra bonds
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Weighted deduction on R&D raised to 200% from 150%
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No tax on Income up to Rs 1.6 lacs
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Current surcharge on companies reduced to 7.5%
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Minimum Alternate tax hiked to 18%
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30% tax on income above Rs 8 lacs
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20% tax on income between Rs 5 lacs to 8 lacs
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10% tax on income between Rs 1.6 lacs to 5 lacs
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IT tax slabs broadened
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IT dept to notify Saral 2 form for individual tax payers
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IT exemption limit enhanced, surcharge withdrawn
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FY11 net market borrowings pegged at Rs 3.45 lac Crs
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20 Kms of highway to be constructed everyday
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FY10 budget deficit seen at 6.9% of GDP
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FY12 fiscal deficit target at 4.8%
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FY13 fiscal deficit target at 4.1%
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More than 50% increase in funds for minority welfare
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Fiscal deficit target of 5.5% in FY11
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15% rise in planned expenditure
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Govt to set up National Mission for delivery of justice
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Gross tax receipts Rs 7.46 lac Crs
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Defence capex raised to Rs 60000 Crs
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Allocation to defence raised to Rs 1.47 lac Crs
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Pvt sector to meet food grain storage deficit
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Rs 100 Cr woman farmer fund scheme
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Rs 1900 Crs allocated for UID project
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Skill development programme for textile sector
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Home loans up to Rs 20 lacs to get intrest subvention of 1% up to March 11
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Government to contribute Rs 1000 per month for pension security
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Rs 5400 Crs allocated for urban development
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Rs 66100 Crs allocated for rural development
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Rs 2400 Crs allocated for MSMEs
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Social Security Fund to have corpus of over Rs 1000 Crs
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National Social Security fund for unorganised workers
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Intrest subvention for housing loans up to 1 lacs
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Rs 10,000 Crs allocated for Indira Awas Yojna
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Rs 1200 Crs assistance for drought in Bundelkhand
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Rs 48000 Crs for Bharat Nirman
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NREGA scheme allocation raised to Rs 41000 Crs
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Allocation to health Rs 22,300 Crs
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25% of plan allocation for rural infrastructure
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Social sector spending seen at Rs 1.38 lakh Crs
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Allocation for school education up from Rs 26800 Crs to Rs 31036 Crs
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Allocation to power sector at Rs 5130 Crs
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Rs 200 Crs for Tamilnadu textile sector
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One time grant for Tirupur exports
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Draft food security Bill ready
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Clean energy fund to be established
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Allotment for renewable energy hiked by 61%
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Coal regulatory authority to be set up
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Road development hiked to Rs 19894 Crs
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Rs 1.73 lakh Crs, which is 46% of total plan outlay, reserved for infrastructure development
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2% loan subsidy to farmers
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Farm credit targets to be increased to Rs 3.75 lakh Crs
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Farm loan payments to be extended for six months
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Interest subvention of 2% to be extended for handicrafts and SMEs
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Rs 300 Crs for agricultural impetus
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Additional Rs 1,65,000 Crs for bank re-capitalisation
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Intrest subvention for exports to extended for one year
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RBI may give banking licenses to Pvt cos and NBFCs
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FDI policy to be made more user-friendly
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To discuss Kirit Parikh report in due course
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Fertiliser subsidy to be reduced
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Divestment target of Rs 25,000 Crs
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GST to be implemented from 2011
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Hope to implement Direct Tax Code from April 2011
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Calibrated exit strategy for fiscal stimulus
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Need to review stimulus, go back to fiscal prudence
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Significant private investment inflow expected to boost GDP
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Economy can achieve GDP growth of 10%
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India faces a challenge of reverting to double digit growth
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FY 2009-10 was a challenging year
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Need to improve food security and healthcare systems
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Indian economy in far better position than last year, says Pranab
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Pranab Mukherjee starts Budget speech
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Pranab Mukherjee arrives in Parliament
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Parliament to convene at 11 am
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All eyes on stimulus rollback
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Pranab Mukherjee reaches North Block
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1. The government on Friday allocated Rs 1,47,344 crore towards defence in 2010-11 budget, a paltry 4 per cent increase from last year’s Rs 1,41,703 crore.
2. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday allocated Rs 22,300 crore for the health sector in his 2010-11 budget, an increase of over Rs 2,700 crore over the previous fiscal year.
3. New income tax rates
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No income tax for those earning upto Rs 1.60 lakh per annum
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For people earning between Rs 1.60 lakh per annum to Rs 5 lakh per annum the tax rate will be 10 per cent
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Tax on income between Rs 5 lakh per annum to Rs 8 lakh per annum will be 20 per cent
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Income tax on income of Rs 8 lakh and above will be 30 per cent
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New tax rates would offer relief to 60 per cent of tax-payers
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Additional deduction of Rs 20,000 allowed on long term infrastructure bonds for income tax payers; this is above Rs one lakh on saving instruments allowed already
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Income Tax department ready with two-page Saral-2 return forms for individual salaried assesses.
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Investment linked tax deductions to be allowed to two-star hotels anywhere in the country.
4. The government today announced loans at a subsidised interest rate of five per cent – two per cent less than market rate — for farmers who pay their dues in time.
Announcing this in his Budget speech for 2010-11, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also said that the credit target for the agriculture sector has been increased to Rs 3,75,000 crore for the next fiscal from Rs 3,25,000 crore 2009-10.
5. Goods Effected by this budget :
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Gold gets cheaper
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Petrol, Diesel to be expensive
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Mobile phones to be cheaper
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Large cars, SUVs to cost more
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Petro products, cigarettes to be expensive
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Fertilisers to be costlier after the reduction in subsidy
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High fuel prices added to inflation: Pranab
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Pranab Mukherjee said the govt would initiate action to bridge the gap between wholesale and retail prices.
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Govt promises to tackle food inflation in budget
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Calls for fiscal discipline have gained urgency as inflation is forecast by some economists to reach 10 percent in coming weeks as high food prices fuel broader inflation expectations.
6. Taxes
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More services to be brought under service tax net
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Service tax to result in net revenue gain of Rs 3000cr
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Customs duty on gold to be reduced; silver at Rs 1500/kg
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Uniform concessional duty of 5% on all medical appliances
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Rationalising of customs on gaming software
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Custom duty of one of the key component of microwave oven reduced
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Peak customs duty unchanged at 10%
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Custom duty for importing of duplication of prints of films revised
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No capital gains tax on conversion of a business entity into Limited Liability Partnership
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Businesses up to Rs 60 lakh and professionals up to Rs 15 lakh to be exempted from auditing obligations
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Nominal duty of 4% electric cars
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Partial rollback of excise duty on cement, cement products, large cars
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To levy excise duty of Re 1/litre on petrol
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R&D Corp Tax break up to 200%
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Direct tax receipts to fall by Rs 56,000 cr
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Pilot project for tax grievances extended to 4 cities
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Direct tax scheme to result in revenue loss of Rs 26,000cr
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Corporate tax surcharge down from 10 to 7.5%
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Rs 20,000 additional tax break for infra bonds
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Corp Min Alternate Tax up from 15 to 18%
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New tax rates would offer relief to 60 per cent of tax-payers
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Direct tax slabs: income upto 1.6 lakh = nil, 1.6-5 lakh = 10%, 5-8 lakh = 20%,
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above 8 lakh = 30%
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Centralized Tax Centre at Bengaluru fully functional
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Gross tax receipts Rs 7.46 lakh crore
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Deferment of goods & service tax negative for corporates in FY10-11
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Direct tax to be implemented from April 1, 2011
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Simple tax system with minimum exemptions near completion
7. Effect on Stock Market
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Realty stock gain after tax sops for developers
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Nifty up 100 pts
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Sens*x surges over 350 pts on direct tax sops
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BSE real estate index extends gains to 3% on sops to developers
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12.30am: Markets responds positively, Sens*x up 300 pts
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Banking stocks up, react to banking expansion plans
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Markets up by 100 points
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Fertilizer stocks up, react to reduction of subsidy
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11.30am: BSE Sens*x, Nifty up by 0.5%
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Markets react positively to Pranab speech
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9am: BSE Sens*x at 16,296.59, 0.26%
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9am: NSE index at 4,880.55 0.4%
8. Consumers will have to pay more for petrol, diesel, cars, TVs, cigarettes, tobacco, air-conditioner, gold and silver as the government today announced hike in excise duty as part of a partial roll back of stimulus measures announced for reviving the economy.
9. Government raises diesel price by 2.58 rupees/litre, petrol by 2.67 rupees/litre(Oil Secy says may raise fuel prices later on Friday)
10 . Winners and Looser’s in Budget 2010
LOSERS:
Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services,Wipro,ITC Ltd
Winners :
State Bank of India, Andhra Bank, Canara Bank and Bank of India,Educomp Solutions, NITT Ltd and Aptech,Larsen & Toubro, GMR Infrastructure, Jaiprakash Associates, Gammon Infra ,DLF, Unitech and Sobha Developers,Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Cipla, Biocon,Indian Hotels, EIH and Taj GVK Hotels