The Finance Minister's Budget Speech. Read between the lines.

Business Standard Smart Business event held recently in Mumbai in association with N. L Dalmia Institute of management studies & research

From left to right Mr. Pankaj Mathpal, CFP, MD, Optima Money Managers pvt.Ltd , Mr. Anil Talreja, Partner ,Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Mr. Shailesh Prajapati, GM Finance Parle Elizabeth Tools Pvt Ltd. and Mr. Ashutosh Sharma , Associate Director Crisil at Business Standard Smart Business event held recently in Mumbai in association with N. L Dalmia Institute of management studies & research.

Business Standard, in association with N. L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, organized a panel discussion on “Analysis of Budget 2013” on 3rd March 2013.

The session started with the presentation by the first panelist Mr. Anil Talreja, who explained various features of Budget 2013, such as DTC, Recommendation on GAAR, significant policies, proposals, etc. He also kept the session alive by witty humour by explaining the relationship between a healthy budget and marriage. The session was taken forward by Mr. Ashutosh Sharma, who crisply stated that Budget 2013 was a short-term budget addressing only the current priorities of the nation. He proposed that the only silver lining in the Budget is that RBI might cut down the interest rates. Later Mr. Shailesh Prajapati shared various aspects of direct and indirect taxes covered in Budget 2013, in a comprehensive summary. The analysis by finance and taxation experts was followed by the coherent panel discussion and Q&A round by Mr. Mathpal. It was the most enlightening part of the entire event and ended in a very healthy discussion.