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Budget 2026 impact: Focus is on healthy, skilled and empowered Indians

The budget reflects clarity, optimism, and a results-oriented approach aimed at fostering transparency and citizen engagement

Direct Taxes: Clear and predictable path laid out for easier compliance

The Finance Minister presented the Budget in Kartavya Bhawan anchored in three core kartavyas - driving economic growth, empowering citizens, and ensuring equitable access to opportunity

Indirect Taxes: Growth engine for India charged up for an uncertain world

The Budget meets industry expectations by simplifying tariff structures, boosting domestic manufacturing through duty corrections, and leveraging AI to automate trade processes for high-growth economy

Budget 2025 impact: Viksit Bharat through social sector transformation

Budget focuses on equitable prosperity by increasing accessibility to quality education, healthcare and social welfare programmes

Indirect Taxes: Budget 2025 boosts domestic manufacturing, eases tax burden

The Budget supports the government's pledge to reduce tax burden and move towards a trust-based tax framework

Direct tax: Budget 2025-26 eases burden, boosts spending and growth

Proposals aim to encourage the middle class to spend and help economic growth. By Pwc India

Union Budget 2024-25: Emphasis on bringing simplicity in direct tax system

Tax proposals aim to bring in uniformity, improve compliance and reduce litigation

Union Budget 2024-25: Govt aims on strengthening social sector reforms

Budget's focus is to create jobs and improve workforce skills

Union Budget 2024-25: Lightening the indirect burden on taxpayers

The Budget has taken up several welcome measures for their benefit and overall trade facilitation

Direct tax: Budget gives a blueprint for sustained high-growth trajectory

Presently, no TDS is required on interest payable in the case of listed dematerialised securities

Social sector: The emphasis of Budget is on the consolidation of schemes

The government has ring-fenced financial outlays for various social sectors, and this is reflected in nominal increases and efforts to make them more effective

Indirect taxes: Budget proposals aligned with govt's strategic priorities

Budget 2023-24 adopted seven priorities or Saptarishi, one of which is building focus on green growth

Social sector: The focus of Budget 2022 is on effective implementation

The government has continued with earlier policies, schemes and extent of outlays, without attempting radical shifts or transformations

Indirect Taxes: Union Budget 2022 is a transformative and progressive

The focus on India's startup ecosystem, the ease of doing business and green energy will shore up growth momentum and benefit multiple stakeholders.

Direct Taxes: FM Sitharaman chooses quiet consolidation in Budget

The yardsticks of stability, predictability, rationalisation and simplification define the tax proposals