Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Budget 2010-11



- Fiscal deficit pegged at 5.5% of GDP

- I-T dept to notify simple two-page Saral 2 form for individuals for current year

- Personal income tax: Nil for income up to Rs 1.6 lakh, 10% for income bet Rs 1.6 -5 lakh

- Personal income tax: Income between 5-8 lakh: Tax at 20%

- Personal income tax: Above Rs 8 lakh, tax at 30%

- Professionals with Rs 15 lakh income need account audit

- Partial rollback of excise duty relief on large cars

- To provide subsidy in cash instead of bonds for fertiliser, oil

- Customs duty on gold, platinum imports raised to Rs 300 from Rs 200

- Service tax to GDP ratio is 1%

- Net revenue gain of Rs 43,500 cr from customs, excise proposal

- Direct tax proposals result in Rs 26,000 cr loss; indirect tax yield Rs 45,000 cr gain

- News agencies exempt from service tax

- Some services hitherto not taxed would be brought under the purview of new Service Tax

- Service Tax rates unchanged at 10%

- No import duty on some equipment in road projects

- Cut in duty for photovoltaic units

- External commercial borrowing will be available for food storage industries

- Clean energy cess on domestic, imported coal

- Peak customs duty remains unchanged at 10%

- Central excise on LED lights halved to 4%

- Agricultural seeds exempt from service tax

- Full excise cut on electric cars

- For solar mission, solar power generating units rates are to be reduced by 5%

- Cut on personal tax rates means saving of Rs 50,000 for income up to Rs 8 lakh

- Partial rollback of excise duty relief on large cars

- Peak excise duty hiked from 8% to 10%

- Market borrowing were up to 3,45,000 cr. Enough to meet credit need of private sector

- Duties on smoking and non-smoking tobacco products up

- Excise duty on large cars, SUVs, multi utility vehicles hiked

- Petroleum products: basic excise duty of 5% crude, 7.5% on diesel & petrol; 10% on other products

- Structural changes in excise duties of tobacco, propose to extend excise duty

- Revenue loss of Rs 26,000 cr on a/c of direct tax proposals

- Surcharge for companies reduced to 7.5%

- Due to direct taxes, result in a revenue loss of Rs 26,000 cr

- Threshold limit for TDS applicability to be rationalised

- Extended scope of presumptive taxes up to Rs 40 lac

- Real estate sector now gets 5 years for completion instead of 4 years before

- To boost tourism investment, offers investment linked tax deductions

- Addl Rs20,000 deduction available for investment in infra bonds

- Reduces current surcharge of 10% on domestic comp to 7.5%

- Automation of excise, service tax already rolled out

- FY11 market borrowing pegged at Rs 3.45 lakh cr

- Govt to set up apex level Financial Stability and Development Council

- FY13 fiscal deficit seen at 4.1%

- Fiscal deficit seen at 4.8% in FY12

- Allocates Rs 1,900 cr for UID project

- Planned expenditure up 15% over 2009-10

- Increase in non-planned exp up only 6%

- Total exp proposed up 8.7% over 2009-10, to Rs 11 lakh cr

- Taskforce to counter problems in Maoist affected areas. Adequate funds will be allocated

- Allocation to Defence over Rs 147,000 crore

- Technology advisory group to be set up under Nandan Nilekani

- Smart card extended to NREGA

- RBI to dole out more banking licences: Pranab

- Sign language training centre for hearing impaired

- Rs 4,500 cr for program of social justice, sr citizens, backward classes, handicapped

- Rs 100 cr allocated for women farmers

- Exclusive skill dev prog in textile and garment sector

- Rs 48,000 cr for Bharat Nirman plan

- Asks state govt to contribute for social security to workers in unorganised sector

- Infra stocks spurt on higher allocation

- To allocate Rs 22,300 cr to Health Ministry

- Allocates Rs 100 cr for new pension scheme, to benefit 100,000 low income citizens

- Khadi institutes get Rs 400 cr

- GOI sign $150 mn deal with ADB for implementing Khadi programme

- Rajiv Awas Yojana now ready' gets Rs 1,270 cr for FY11

- Rs 7300cr in 2011 for backward sections

- GST, Direct Taxes Code from April 2011

- Housing loan: 1% interest subvention scheme extended, allocation Rs 700 cr

- Urban dev allocation up more than 75% to Rs 5400 cr

- Allocates Rs 1,200 cr for drought mitigation

- Indira Awas Yojana: allocation up by Rs 10,000 cr

- NMDC, SVJN stake sale to fetch Rs 25,000 cr in FY10

- NREGS gets Rs 40,100 cr in FY11

- Rs66,1000 cr allocateds for rural development in FY11

- IIFCL disbursements at Rs 9000 cr by March 2010

- School education outlay for FY11 at Rs 31,000 cr

- States to get Rs 3,675 cr for primary education at rural level

- To set up coal regulatory authority

- Spending on social sector at Rs 137,000 cr

- Rs 25,000 cr allocated to develop rural infrastructure

- Growth to exceed 7.2% in this fiscal

- Final FY10 GDP figure maybe higher than estimate of 7.2%

- To set up National clean energy fund

- Plan outlay for Renewable energy ministry up 61%

- Power allocation doubles to Rs 5,100 cr

- To set up 5 more mega food park projects

- Allocation for road tansport Rs 19,894 cr

- Farm loan repayment extended by 6 months

- ECB to be available for cold storage

- To provide Rs 400 cr to boost farm output in eastern India

- Timely repayment of crop loans: subvention raised from 1% to 2%

- Govt is committed to growth of SEZ to promote exports

- Proposes allocation of Rs 200 cr for climate-resilient agricultural program

- Extend 2% interest subvention for exports for another year

- FY11 capital for PSU banks at Rs 16,500 cr

- Extends interest subvention of 2% for handloom, handicrafts for 1 more yr

- Propose new bill to address problems in corpoate sectors

- Will augment assistance to RRBs to strengthen rural sector

- RBI may give license to some more private sector players and NBFCs

- Rs 1,900 cr addl capital in four PSU banks

- Ownership and control clearly defined in FDI policy

- To discuss Kirit Parikh report in due course

- Subsidy for fertiliser sector to increase farm productivity

- Govt to raise Rs 25,000 cr this year to meet cap expenditure requirements

- GST and DTC can be introduced in April 2011

- Steps to reduce public debt, paper to be presented in 6 months

- Signs of food inflation going to non-food items

- Need to review stimulus, move to fiscal consolidation

- Double digit food inflation in 2009

- Export figures encouraging; pvt investments can be expected

- Concerned over emergence of double digit food inflation

- 18.9% growth rate in manufacturing sector in 2009

- Final figure may be higher if earnings in last quarters are strong

- Need to make recovery

- Growth slows down to 6% in Q3 vs 7.9% in Q2 this fiscal

- Focus shifts to non-governmental actors

- 3rd challenge: relates to problems in government system

- 2nd challnge: harden economic growth to make dev more inclusive

- 1st challenge: quickly revert to higher GDP growth path of 9%, cross double digit growth

- Economy is in a better position than a year ago, however, challenges remain

- Uncertainity was there on account of delay in monsoon, concerns about production and food prices

- Pranab Mukherjee starts announcing Union Budget

- Bond yields steady ahead of Budget

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