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Budget 2020: Venture Capitals, startups seek budgetary aid in meet with FM

The Nasscom has also sought that IT and BPO firms should not be treated as financial intermediaries for the goods and services tax (GST).

Top 10 headlines: GST compensation cess, Zomato-UberEats deal, and more

Finance ministers of non-BJP-ruled states are likely to discuss on Monday their strategy for the GST Council meet

Budget 2020: Centre may announce sops for states for pollution control

The Commission submitted its interim report for 2020-21 to President Ram Nath Kovind earlier this month

Budget 2020: Centre may announce increase in FPIs' debt limit to 10%

Existing limit for FPI investment in G-secs is 6% of the outstanding stocks of securities; govt may announce increase to 10% in Union Budget 2020

Budget session: PM asks MPs to take suggestions from farmers, traders

The Union Budget 2020-21 is scheduled to be presented in Parliament next year

PMO, FinMin to hold Budget 2020 meetings to discuss ideas to boost economy

Besides the scheduled meetings, the sources said, the PMO is expected to hold several meetings with top secretaries, officials on various ongoing schemes

Budget 2020 likely on February 1, economic survey on January 31: Report

This will be the first time after 2015-16 when the budget will be presented on Saturday

Budget 2020: Sitharaman's budget-making team short of two key officials

Budget for 2020-21 is keenly awaited for the expected second wave of structural reforms for pulling out the economy from its over six-year low growth of 4.5 per cent

Fiscal deficit may slip to 3.5-3.8% in FY20; govt set to miss 3.3% target

The FRBM Act, after its amendment in 2018, allows a fiscal deficit slippage of not more than 0.5% for any given year, provided there are justifications

Budget 2020: Pradhan hopes for signal on ATF, natural gas inclusion in GST

5 commodities namely crude oil, natural gas, petrol, diesel, and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) were kept out of GST's purview given the revenue dependence of state governments on these sectors

Gaps in FM Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2020 team have experts worried

Budget will be presented in Parliament in early 2020; people joining now will find it difficult to pick up

Govt may announce UPA-style bailout of stressed NBFCs in Budget 2020

Note suggests liquidity support, govt guarantee for securities issued by SPVs

FinMin to kick-start the exercise to prepare Budget for 2020-21 from Oct 14

It will be the second Budget of both the Modi 2.0 government and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Budget 2020: Finance ministry seeks suggestions on direct, indirect taxes

The move is estimated to result in Rs 1.45 trillion in revenue loss for the government during 2019-20

Govt to push for passage of workers' safety code in Budget session: Gangwar

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code was introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 23, 2019

Budget 2020: FinMin seeks industry inputs on direct, indirect tax changes

'Views may be supplemented and justified by relevant statistical information about the production, prices, revenue implication of the changes suggested'

FM Sitharaman fudged Budget figures to hide real deficit: Yashwant Sinha

FM Sitharaman also hit out at the Narendra Modi government for revoking the Overseas Citizen of India status of writer Atish Taseer

Budget 2020: Govt to focus on tax incentives, private investments

Long-term capital gains tax could be abolished

How much of their Budget 2019-20 allocations have ministries spent?

On September 30, 53.4 per cent of BE 2019-20 was spent by various ministries/departments

Declining budget: Navy likely to field about 175 warships, not 200

The Navy was allocated Rs 56,388 crore in 2019-20, of which Rs 25,656 crore was for capital expenditure