BUDGET DOCUMENTS

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  • Budget Highlights (Key Features)
  • Budget Speech
  • Budget at a Glance
  • Annual Financial Statement
  • Finance Bill
  • Memorandum
  • Receipt Budget
  • Expenditure Budget
  • Customs & Central Excise
  • The Macro Economic Framework Statement
  • The Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement
  • The Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement
  • Statement of Revenue Foregone
  • Implementation of Budget Announcements 2016-2017
  • Complete Union Budget Part1-(Excluding Exp. Budget)
  • Complete Union Budget Documents Part2-(Exp. Budget)

DETAILED BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS

  • Union Budget 2017-18: Reduction in customs and excise for renewable energy sector
  • Union Budget 2017-18: Rs1,84,632-cr allocated to women and children welfare
  • Union Budget 2017-18: Focus on rural roads, housing and electrification
  • Budget 2017-18: Farm credit fixed at Rs10 lakh crore
  • Budget 2017-18: FM trims tax on MSMEs with turnover below Rs50-cr to 25%
  • Budget 2017: Shares of IRCTC, IRFC and IRCON to be listed
  • Budget taps levies on other sources to bridge revenue gap
  • Jaitley budgets for growth, offers tax sops for salaried
  • Union Budget 2017-18: Flashes

SECTORS

  • Union Budget 2017-18: Defence allocation up 6% y-o-y at Rs2,74,000 cr
  • Budget could have boosted "Make in India"
  • Healthcare sector gets a shot in the arm
  • A boost to digital payment services
  • Strengthening 'Ease of Doing Business'

REACTIONS

  • Will boost consumer appliances segment
  • Allocation for clean water, sanitation will help bring India up to global standards
  • Budget will boost rural India
  • Serious on healthcare
  • Easing of presumptive taxes welcome
  • Pragmatic and positive
  • Nothing transformational nor populist
  • Without any big bang reforms
  • A tepid budget by all accounts
  • Surrounded by themes of transformation
  • Removing FIPB may lead to liberalising of defence production
  • Neither popular nor populist
  • Non reduction of headline tax rates a major disappointment
  • Budget aims to boost Digital Economy

COMMENT

  • NPS made more attractive
  • Will spread all-round cheer for housing
  • Budget is extremely positive for logistics
  • Budget provides special focus on the rural economy
  • Sharp focus on infrastructure
  • Hospitals in rural areas should have been given infrastructure status
  • Directed towards economic growth and development
  • Boosts real estate, low-cost housing and infrastructure

SPECIAL REPORTS

  • Budget provides Rs10,000 cr for rural broadband connectivity
  • Banks to issue Electoral Bonds to enable donations to political parties
  • Budget 2017-18: GST Council almost ready with recommendations, says finance minister
  • Budget 2017-18: Total expenditure pegged at Rs21,47,000 cr
  • Union Budget 2017-18: FM trims tax to 5% for income up to Rs5 lakh
  • Curbs on cash transaction above Rs3 lakh

PRE-BUDGET REPORTS

  • Experts say shun rail-related stocks, as changes only cosmetic
  • Budget may take service tax rates to 16-18% levels from 1 April
  • Time apt for an expansionist budget, say experts
  • Budget expected to boost spending and investment: Principal PNB AMC
  • Budget 2017 to miss fiscal deficit target: Crisil
  • Pharma industry seeks GST relaxations in the name of the poor
  • Pre-Budget: Automakers demand 200% weighted deduction on R&D spend
  • Pre-Budget: Real estate sector seeks infra status, interest rate cuts and tax sops

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