Cheaper and costlier items table

Finance Minister P Chidambaram today reduced duties on automobiles and other items of regular use by consumers while sparing the common man from price hikes on others except for a marginal increase on entry level mobile phones in the tax proposals in the interim Budget 2014-15.

Following is a list of some of the popular products that will be cheaper and costlier:

Cheaper --

> Cars

> Sports utility vehicles

> Motorcycles

> Scooters

> Commercial vehicles

> TVs

> Refrigerators

> Computers

> Printers

> Keyboards

> Mouse

> Hard disks

> Vacuum cleaners

> Dish washers

> Water coolers
 

> Torch lights

> Scanners

> Digital cameras

> Hair dryers

> Electric irons

> Microwave oven

> MP3 players

> DVD Players

> Soaps

> Charges of cord blood banks

Costlier --

> Entry level mobile handsets costing less than Rs 2,000.