Union budget: 2015-16
BUDGET DOCUMENTS
- Key to Budget Documents
- 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
DETAILED BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
- Union Budget 2015 - 16: Jaitley eyes temple gold to address current account woes
- Union Budget 2015-16: Proposal to amend regulation on PF, ESIS
- Union Budget 2015-16: Thrust on education; AIIMS, IITs, and IIMs in more states
- Union Budget 2015-16: Tax reduction for contribution to 'Swachh Bharat Kosh'
- Union Budget 2015-16: Curbing malfeasance in public procurement
- Union Budget 2015-16: Improves ease of doing business with tax simplification
- Union Budget 2015-16: Corporate tax to be reduced by 5% to 25% in four years
- Union Budget 2015-16: Tax exemptions for salary earners
- Union Budget 2015-16: SETU to seed job creation through self employment and talent utilisation
- Jaitley replaces wealth tax with 2 per cent surcharge, plans to cut corporate tax
- Union Budget 2014-15: What Finance Minister said
- Union Budget 2015-16: Highlights of Union Budget 2015-16
- Union Budget 2015-16: Arun Jaitley presents NDA's maiden Budget
SECTORS
- Union Budget 2015-16: Govt plans 5 more ultra mega power prjects
- Union Budget 2015-16: Insurance for the masses
- Union Budget 2015-16: Service tax hike: phoning, eating out, house loans to be dearer
- Union Budget 2015-16: Special bureau to help PSU banks raise capital: Jaitley
- Union Budget 2015-16: infrastructure investment rises by Rs70,000 crore
- Union Budget 2015-16: Budget focuses on green development, power and electric vehicles
- Union Budget 2015-16: Import duty on commercial vehicles, steel to go up
- Union Budget 2015-16: Customs, excise duties cut for appliances, e-goods manufacturers
- Union Budget 2015-16: Boosts agricultural productivity to promote rural welfare
- Union Budget 2015-16: MUDRA bank to be set up for small, micro enterprises
REACTIONS
- New AIIMS, hike in health policy premiums welcome
- Should attract more portfolio flows
- Confusion cleared on GAAR
- Announcement on GST will rejuvenate industry
- 3.9% fiscal deficit negative for the markets
- Pushing deficit target by a year is pragmatic
- A credible budget
- Step on GAAR a huge positive
- Test case on whether fiscal stimulus works
- Insurance at Re1-premiuma revolutionary step
- A giant leap in empowering states
- Proper implementation of Jan Dhan a positive
COMMENT
- Union Budget 2015 - 16: S&P lauds budgetary commitment to lower deficit
- Union Budget 2015 - 16: Lacuna lies in lack of reorientation from non-plan to plan expenditure
- Jaitley�s budget leaves farmers short-changed: Manmohan
- A Budget with multiple focus areas
- No directional change in agriculture
- Larger fiscal deficit may lead to market correction
- Opens new growth trajectory with social sector support for the weak
- Higher deficit unlikely to attract immediate ire of rating agencies
- This Budget is part of the larger scheme to make india attractive
SPECIAL REPORTS
- For the first time in 4 years, markets rise on Budget day
- Union Budget 2015-16: Money should come from taxpayer compliance, surcharges
- Union Budget 2015-16: Corporate tax rate to be cut from 30 to 25%
- Union Budget 2015-16: Post offices to be used to improve rural financial system
- Union Budget 2015-16: No change in IT slabs; hike in mediclaim, pension exemption limits
- Budget looks to business, states to push growth
- Sensex, Nifty plunge despite praise for Jaitley budget
- Jaitley replaces wealth tax with 2 per cent surcharge, plans to cut corporate tax
PRE-BUDGET REPORTS
- Pharma companies want tax sops, clarity on transfer pricing
- Planters want import duty on rubber raised to 30%
- Pre budget: Skewed tax regime puts odds against enterprise
- Pre budget: More cash in the hands of middle class to boost consumption
- Consumer durables makers want excise, customs duties cut
- Housing industry seeks infra status
- RBI rate cut not enough to boost real estate industry, feels Rohit Gera
- Appliance industry sees restoration of concessional excise duty
- Shipping industry seeks budget sops, govt backing for skill development
- Plastics industry demands trebling of duty on Chinese products
- Budget may bolster Mumbai�s plans for global financial hub
- Host of measures likely in Budget to boost investment climate
