Union budget: 2007-08
DETAILED BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
- Key Features of Budget 2007-2008
- Highlights of Union Budget 2007-08
- Budget disappoints IT / ITeS sector
- Farm sector gets top priority as budget looks for inclusive growth
- Import duty cuts add shine to the jewellery sector
- Agriculture top priority for overall growth: FM
- Indirect taxes: VAT, CST and a roadmap towards GST
- Direct taxes: No more tax blows
DOCUMENTS
REACTIONS
- China threatens to boycott Indian iron ore
- Budget leads to mix of price announcements by car companies
- Steel, cement companies hike prices
- Economists disappointed by ''lack of ambition'' in the budget
- Auto makers to raise prices marginally
- Maruti not to hike prices immediately
- A balance between fiscal consolidation and economic growth: S&P
- No major signals on IT infrastructure upgradation
- No incentives for exports
- A lacklustre budget, feels India Inc
- Taxpayers disappointed
- Mixed response from corporate India
- ''Nothing to tame inflation, push growth'': Opposition
- Industry reacts to Budget 2006-07
- Not in touch with ground realities: Left
COMMENT
- Another good year for urban India; what about rural Bharat?
- Kudos for resisting the populist urge, Mr FM
- Preparing for the next phase of growth
- No directional departure
- A budget of good intentions
SPECIAL REPORTS
- FM makes life tougher for tax evaders
- Chidambaram''s cement bluff
- Finance minister blunts National Insurance''s competitive edge
- Reverse mortgage to go overdrive
- Food security is as important as national security, says Arun Firodia
- Venture fund, IT and auto sectors thumb-down the budget
- Budget disappoints auto industry
- Inclusive growth augurs well for the long term
- Healthcare industry demands deeper reforms
- Mortgage guarantee companies to ease housing sector fund woes
- A missed opportunity for insurance sector
- A lukewarm budget for the textile sector
- Inflationary trends lead to duty cut on edible oils
- Infrastructure to benefit rural India
- Infrastructure: The new thrust sector
- Budget focus on education, healthcare, says PM
- Individual taxpayers get a modest relief
- Cement, IT stocks battered by budget proposals
PRE-BUDGET REPORTS
- Finance minister expected to unveil populist budget
- Budget may help increase cross-border M&A deals: IndusView Advisors
- PHDCCI moots tax rationalisation
- Bicycle industry seeks import duty cut on steel
- Budget 2007: What India Inc expects
- Budget less important today than in past: Hans Goetti, Citigroup
- FMCG sector: Less taxing times?
- Tax reform, staff crunch top India Inc wishlist
- Pre-budget: Banks likely to ask for tax exemption on interest income
- CII wants excise duty cut by 2 per cent: pre-budget
- FM refuses to relent on FBT, India Inc concedes defeat
