Union budget: 2017-18
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 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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