Friday 29 February 2008

UNION BUDGET 2008 - 2009 HIGHLIGHTS

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  • Banking transaction tax to be withdrawn from April 2009
  • Reduce central sales tax to 2%
  • Increase in short term capital gains tax to 15%
  • 5-yr tax holiday for setting up hospitals in tier-II, tier III regions
  • Short-term capital gains increases to 15%
  • Excise duty of Rs 1.35/litre on unbranded petrol
  • Excise duty of Rs 4.6/litre on unbranded diesel
  • Commodities Transactions Tax on futures to be introduced
  • Securities Transaction Tax to be treated like deductible expenditure
  • 5-yr tax holiday to 2,3,4-star hotels in UNESCO's heritage sites
  • Pharma : Excise down from 16% to 8%
  • No FBT on creche, employee sports facilities
  • Ad Valorem duty on diesel and petrol removed
  • No change in corporate income tax rate, surcharge stays
  • Women exemption threshold extended from Rs 1,45,000 to 1,80,000
  • Income Tax exemption raised to Rs 1,50,000
  • Income Tax exemption for senior citizens raised to Rs 2,25,000
  • Anti-AIDS drugs to be exempt from excise duties
  • Refrigeration components to become cheaper
  • Cigarettes to be taxed more
  • 4 new sectors brought under service tax net
  • No change in peak rate of customs duty for non agriculture imports.
  • Tax to GDP ratio increased from 9.2 per cent in 2004-05 to 12.5 per cent 2007-08.
  • No excise duty on wireless data cards
  • Customs duty on specified life saving drugs reduced from 10% to 5%
  • Customs duty on specified sports goods machinery down from 7.5% to 5%
  • Special Countervailing Duty on power imports.
  • Excise duty on small cars cut
  • Excise duty down on 2 & 3 wheelers to 12%
  • Some sports goods raw materials exempt from duty
  • Convergence products, duty cut from 10% to 5%
  • No duty on set-top boxes
  • Custom duties to be reduced on some power projects, steel & alumninium melting scrap
  • some life saving drugs.
  • Duties on project imports cut to 5% from 7.5%
  • Govt needs one more year to eliminate revenue deficit
  • Rs 32,667 for food subsidies under PDS scheme
  • Rs 50 crore for the National Tiger Fund Authority, to deploy a special tiger protection force.
  • Rs 624 crore allocated for Commonwealth Games
  • Revenue deficit at 1.4% of GDP
  • Govt to set up Central Plan Scheme Monitoring system
  • One time settlement scheme for farmers
  • 6th Pay commission will meet employee expectation
  • Defence spending to increase by 10 percent
  • Govt to tap into resources of SCBs to set up funds
  • Commercial banks advised to have 250 rural accounts every year
  • Completion rate of Golden Quadrilateral project at 98.6%
  • Rs 16,436 cr allocated as equity support to public sector enterprises
  • Rs 12,970 cr allocated for National Highways
  • Govt to create national fund for power transmission & distribution
  • Rs 303 cr as debt support to PSUs
  • Implementation of debt waiver to be completed by June 2008
  • Populism in farm loan waiver, bank shares to be hit
  • Loan waiver for farmers with 1-2 hectares of land; at least 4 cr farmers to benefit from his Loans for small & marginal farmers due up to 31st March 2007 have been waived; waiver amounts to 4% of total bank loans
  • Rs 20,000 cr allocated for irrigation schemes
  • Rs 16,202 cr for schemes with 30% women representation
  • Govt to set up Irrigation & Water Resources Corporations
  • Rs 70,300 cr allocated for Drinking Water Mission
  • Rs 500 cr for development of North-east
  • NREG scheme rolled out for all 596 rural districts
  • Rs 11,460 cr allocated for 100% women specific schemes
  • Allocation for Ministry of Minority Affairs raised to 1,000 cr
  • Rs 1200 cr for sanitation programme
  • Rs 195 cr for ST development programmes
  • Rs 164 cr for development of OBCs
  • Rs 804 cr for SC development programmes
  • Urban Infrastructure allocation to be 6,870 cr
  • Rs 1200 cr for sanitation programme
  • Health insurance of 30,000 to people below poverty line
  • 16 Central universities to be set up
  • National Programme for elderly with a plan outlay of Rs 400 cr
  • Total allocation for NRHM scheme to be at Rs 12,050 cr
  • Health spending to increase by 15%, allocated 16,530 cr
  • Rs 31280 cr allocated to Bharat Nirman Program
  • Proposal to set up 3 new IITs in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar & Rajasthan
  • Upgraded mid-day meal scheme to help 2.5 cr children
  • Education sector funding raised to Rs 34,400 cr
  • Agriculture sector at a disappointing 2.6%
  • Keeping inflation under control is top priority
  • There is immense pressure on domestic prices
  • International prices of Iron Ore, other metals are up
  • Growth in GDP in 2007-08 has been 8.8%
  • 8% GDP growth for 12 successive years
  • 2007-08 has been one of the most challenging years
  • Confident of maintaining 8% growth
  • P Chidambaram tables Union Budget in Parliament today.

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