Page 191 - Budget 2026 News

Limit on employer's contribution to retirement plan: All questions answered

Contributions to NPS may need to be scaled down

ITC is first to hike cigarette prices post budget; makes them 10-20% dearer

Price increase brought on by spike in National Calamity Contingency Duty announced in Budget

Some Budget proposals prone to litigation, may give rise to tax disputes

Tax experts say one of the most dispute-prone proposals is making "fraudulent availing" of input tax credit (ITC), without an invoice or bill, a cognizable and non-bailable offence

Economy fundamentals strong; markets show faith in Budget 2020: Sitharaman

FM says country's macroeconomic parameters are sound

Budget proposes to shut thermal power plants of 166,000 mw, says group

National powermen body to stage protests against 'anti-people' proposals

Long on ideas

Budget falls short on farm reforms execution

Stay the course

FC's final report should mirror the interim award

Budget meets slowdown: Govt's challenge on Feb 1 is to revive demand

What the Budget does to revive demand will determine if the economy can shrug off slowdown and regain momentum.

Budget strikes right balance between growth push and fiscal discipline: CEA

So, at least for me, the way I would look at it is that before the Budget, we were actually looking at 3.3 per cent for this year and 3 per cent for next year

India appears better mkt amid coronavirus scare: Nomura's Saion Mukherjee

India is relatively better than some other markets exposed to stuff like tourism, says Saion Mukherjee

Beyond numbers

Budget speech should have been fact-checked

LIC disinvestment: 100,000 employees stage walk-out across country

There are 13 unions in LIC, and employees and officers affiliated to 11 unions were on protest

Wanted to keep Budget Speech shorter but ended up breaking own record: FM

In July presenting her maiden Budget, Sitharaman had spoken for 2 hours 17 minutes

AGR not part of Budget 2020: Spectrum auction at base price could fill in

Clearly the government is pinning its hope very highly on the mega success of the spectrum auction

A splash of sunshine and a hint on thermal

Mention of clean air in the Budget indicates that some sort of priority is accorded to it

Budget 2020: Rs 2,500 cr not enough for tourism promotion, says industry

Tourism bodies say Indians spending Rs 9,000 cr abroad abroad due to poor domestic infra, which cannot be improved with this allocation

RBI MPC starts meeting to decide new rates amid slowdown, rising inflation

The retail inflation that for several months remained in the comfort zone of the central bank has started inching up and crossed the 7 per cent mark during December 2019

'Too radical': Centre likely to implement direct tax code in parts

The new income tax regime is modelled on the task force's recommendations

Budget 2020 has not accounted for telcos' AGR dues: DEA secretary

But receipts from firms stand at a whopping Rs 1.33 trillion for FY21

The protectionism path

Budget continues the backward slide on trade