Budget 2018 Finance Bill full text: No change in I-T slabs; MSMEs get boost

In his last full Budget 2018 speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley laid the plan for the coming year, pegging the fiscal deficit target at 3.3 per cent of the GDP

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget for the year. In hi speech he said did not change the personal income tax slabs. The long-term capital gains will be taxed at 10 per cent for investment over Rs 100,000. A few highlights of the Finance Bill.

Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2018, income-tax shall be charged at the rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule and such tax shall be increased by a surcharge, for the purposes of the Union, calculated in