<a href="http://www.stockproindia.com" title="Indian stock market"> Indian stock market </a>Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Union Budget 2010-11 in parliament on Friday. Has he lived up to the expectations of the taxpayers? Is it a populist Budget? Will it also help India to grow? To find out read on..
Highlights...
* FM prunes tax rates:
Income up to Rs 1.6 lakh - nil Income above Rs 1.6 lakh and up to Rs 5 lakh - 10 per cent
Income above Rs 5 lakh and up to Rs 8 lakh - 20 per cent
Income above Rs 8 lakh - 30 per cent.
* Income Tax department ready with two-page Saral-2 return forms for individual salaried assesses.
* New tax rates would offer relief to 60 per cent of tax-payers.
* Government's net borrowing to be Rs 3,45,010 crore for 2010-11.
* Additional deduction of Rs 20,000 allowed on long term infrastructure bonds for income tax payers; this is above Rs one lakh on saving instruments allowed already.
* A unique identity symbol would be provided to the Indian Rupee in line with US Dollar, British Pound Sterling, Euro and Japanese Yen.
* Fiscal deficit seen at 4.8 per cent and 4.1 per cent in 2011-12 and 2012-13 respectively.
* Total expenditure pegged at Rs 11.8 lakh crore, an increase of 8.6 per cent.
* Gross tax receipts pegged at Rs 7,46,656 crore for 2010-11, non-tax revenues at Rs 1,48,118 crore.
* FM appeals to "misguided elements" (left wing extremists) to eschew violence and join the mainstream.
* Planning Commission to prepare integrated action plan for Naxal-affected areas.
* Defence allocation pegged at Rs 1,47,344 crore in 2010-11 against Rs 1,41,703 crore in the previous year. Of this, capital expenditure would account for Rs 60,000 crore.
* Fiscal deficit pegged at 6.9 per cent in 2009-10 as against 7.8 per cent in the previous fiscal.
* Finance Minister to continue giving cash subsidy for fuel and fertiliser instead of previous practice of bonds.
* Non-plan expenditure pegged at Rs 37,392 crore and Plan expenditure at Rs 7,35,657 crore in budget estimates. 15 per cent increase in plan expenditure and six per cent in non-plan expenditure.stockproindia.com
