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The Union Budget 2022 was announced on 1st February 2022, in the wake of upcoming elections in 5 states- Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur. It was expected to be a populist budget, along with a boost to education, EV industry and renewable energy. However, not all of these expectations were met in the …
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On 16th September, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the plans for a bad bank - National Asset Reconstruction Co Ltd. But let's not start this story from the end and have a look at what it means. During the budget earlier this year, the FM had announced -" The high level of provisioning by …
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The Union Budget of 2021 had everyone’s attention as the country was recovering from the economic impact of pandemic and lockdown imposed consequently. Though the recent IMF forecast for India’s GDP growth was a positive, it was to be seen whether the budget would prove to be a catalyst or hindrance to such growth. The …
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The Finance Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman announced the various measures of the 20 lakh crore relief package over five tranches. However, these also included the relief announced by the Finance Minister earlier and liquidity measured provided by the RBI. Here is the breakup of the INR 20 lakh crore package- However, as per …
Starting off with a genuine question, does mere deferment of taxes mounts to reliefs? The taxation reliefs provided in the "Aatmanirbhar India Economic Relief Package" may be more of the nature of deferment of incidence, rather than providing actual monetary relief. The Taxation Reliefs announced by Hon’ble Finance Minister are as follows :TDS/TCS Rate reduction …
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