Union budget: 2008-09
BUDGET DOCUMENTS
- Key to Budget
- Budget Highlights
- Budget Speech
- Budget At a Glance
- Annual Financial Statement
- Finance Bill
- Memorandum
- Receipt Budget
- Expenditure Budget
- Customs and Central Excise Notifications
- Implementation of Budget Announcements
- The Macro Economic Framework Statement
- The Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement
- The Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement
DETAILED BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
- Budget 2008-09: Excise duty on petrol, diesel reduced to a flat Rs1.35
- Budget 2008-09: Education allocation up 20 per cent at Rs34,400 crore
- Budget 2008-09: Increased penetration of IT and ITeS in rural areas
- Budget 2008-09: Risk capital fund proposed for micro, small and medium enterprises
- Customs & Central Excise Customs:Non-Tariff
- Budget 2008-09: Government to encourage investment, increased listing of CPSEs
- Budget 2008-09: UPA's flagship social programmes given increased allocations
- Budget 2008-09: Income tax exemption limits hiked
- Budget 2008-09: Rs60,000-crore giveaway to farmers in poll-bound budget
- Budget 2008-09: Fiscal deficit pegged at 2.5 per cent of GDP
- Budget 2008-09 Highlights
REACTIONS
- Fitch says India's Union Budget 2008-09 proposals positive for state governments
- Indian economy to grow despite global uncertainties: IMF
- Budget exceeds expectations
- Budget an economic - political balancing act: K Ramakrishnan, Spark Capital
- Budget will promote demand
- Additional weighted deduction for R&D, incentives for export would have been welcome
- A well-balanced exercise
- More reactions
- Reactions to Budget positive
- Budget will stimulate economy
- Focus on long term economic growth
- Neutral to Positive
- Progressive budget
- Hybrids, lower tax on crude welcome
- Budget scores an 8 on 10
- Rather flattering for the FM's finances
- Commodities market dumped with service tax, without benefits to stock markets
- Another lost opportunity for the insurance sector
- Beneficial and fair for the jewellery sector, but for excise rationalisation for branded jewellery
- PM hails budget as pro-agriculture, investment
COMMENT
- Budget trims exporters` subsidy by Rs600 crore
- A simple direct tax plan for the next budget
- Why this budget is visionary
- Expenditure overruns may result in downgrade of India's credit rating: S&P
- Farm loan waiver - mother of all moral hazards
- Despite resilience, Indian economy vulnerable to global developments
- It is as it should be.. a no-surprise budget
- Populism to the fore
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Finance minister to reveal alternative for loan waiver expenditure
- Ford cuts price of Fusion diesel by Rs22,000
- Fiat, Bajaj cut auto prices
- Honda Motorcycle and Scooter announces price cut
- Budget pushes C-segment cars in a tight corner
- Sports gets a leg up in this Budget; sports goods may become cheaper
- Auto price cuts: Some announced, some expected soon
- Mobile phones costlier, broadband cheaper after Budget 2008
- Maruti cuts car prices up to Rs18,000; Hyundai follows with cuts of up to Rs19,000
- Farm loan waiver a historic step, says Sonia Gandhi
- Industry cheers `balanced, growth-oriented' budget
- Service tax net expanded, collections grow manifold
- Centre to assist desalination project near Chennai
- Budget implications for the auto sector
- Loan waiver may not help Vidarbha farmers
- Banks expect a bonanza from farm loan waiver
PRE-BUDGET REPORTS
- Budget 2008: Automotive industry wish list
- IMC's expectations from Budget 2008-09
- Good times ahead for consumer durables: FICCI
- Ahluwalia calls for reduction in taxes on petrol, diesel; Left parties join the chorus
- Address the rising rupee in this Budget: Gautam Singhania, chairman and managing director, Raymond Ltd
- A reminder to the finance minister
- Expectations from the Union Budget 2008: D&B
- Pre-budget bytes: Karthik KS, 24x7 Learning
- Budget 2008: expectations of the electrical and lighting sector
- Budget 2008: Aviation industry wants high aviation fuel prices brought down
- Hotel association of India submits pre-budget memorandum
- DMAI offers Pre-Budget Proposal to finance minister
- Boost consumer spending to recharge economy: Rangarajan
- Commerce ministry against customs duty cut in Budget 2008
- FM starts pre-budget meeting sessions with agricultural experts
- India Inc not expecting any tax sops in 2008-09 budget: Assocham survey
- Gems and Jewellery export promotion council files pre-budget memorandum
- Civil Aviation ministry seeks rationalised tax structure from the Budget
- CNBC Awaaz brings the 'Tax Ghatao Andolan' to Mumbai
- Tax our cars, not our buses: CSE pre budget expectation
- MAIT calls for stable hardware policy
- NASSCOM provides its pre-budget 2008 wish list to the Finance Ministry
- A letter to the finance minister
- Cement Manufacturer's Association pre-budget memorandum for 2008-09