Thursday, July 16, 2009

Budget 09 highlight

Highlight of UPA government 2009 budget are as follows.

  1. Target 9% growth
  2. Commodities transaction tax to be scrapped
  3. 10% surcharge on personal income scrapped
  4. Fringe Benifit Tax (FBT) to be scrapped
  5. IT exemption for woman hiked Rs.190,000
  6. IT exemption for senior citizen hiked Rs.240,000
  7. Rs 12000 crores earmarked for expenditure on rural road 2009-10
  8. Drug related to heart disease cheaper
  9. Service tax to be applicaable on law firms
  10. Bio diesel custom duty lowerd
  11. Custom duty on import of gold and silver increased
  12. Bio diesel custom duty lowerd
  13. Branded woman jwellery to be cheaper
  14. Rs 16300 crores to be set aside for upcoming common wealth games.
  15. IIT and NIT to get Rs 2113 cr more.
  16. Corporate tax unchanged
  17. one rank pension scheme to be establish for ex-service man
  18. National ganga project allocation up to go to 562 crores
  19. UID project under Mr.Nandan M nilkani to be out in 12 - 18 months
  20. NRHM to be raised by Rs.257 crores
  21. A national level action plan for climate change
  22. National employment exchange to be mordenised
  23. Interest subsidy for home loan up to 1 Lakh
  24. Indira awas yojana blosterd up by 63% to Rs8883 cr
  25. Saral 2 forms to simply tax filling process
  26. Emphasis on fertilizer subsidy reaching out directly to farmers
  27. Petroleum expert panel to set petroleun prices which would be in sink with global level.
  28. Rashtriya krishi vikas yojana allocation increased by 30%
  29. IIFCL, a new company will look in to infrastructure needs.
  30. Extension of farm loan wavier scheme by 6 months
  31. Allocation of National Highway authority of india increased by 23%
  32. Fiscal stimulus at 3.5%pf the GDP
  33. Small scale business to be exempted from advance tax.
  34. 50% reduction in the custom duty of LCD panels
  35. Set top box to be costlier
  36. Goods and service Tax (GST) to be in effet from,April 2010
  37. Textile unitto be enjoy continued tax holiday

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