List of Union Budget Articles

Budget documents are not just numbers. Scrutinising them, one can understand the intention of the government, its priorities, policies and allocation of financial resources, among different regions & industries—which create a sea change in the lives of the people affected by it, Rajkumar Adukia stresses

In order to give a boost to manufacturing, in 2019, the Government announced 15% corporate tax rate for new manufacturing companies that are set up before 31

A special provision is, therefore, made for "Vote on Account" by which Government obtains the Vote of Parliament for a sum sufficient to incur expenditure on various items for a part of the year.

The real estate sector saw some slowdown in demand for affordable and middle income housing segments in the past 2 years. This happened because of successive increases in interest rates by RBI. These increases increased the cost of borrowing for home loan borrowers. The sector now expects the interim budget to provide some incentives to give a boost to demand for affordable and middle income […]

The Interim budget that will come on 1st February, 2024 is the budget before the General Elections. Will the government opt for the path of fiscal consolidation and conservatism in this budget? Its fiscal deficit target for FY 24 is 5.9% of GDP. Will it opt for a lower fiscal deficit target in Interim Budget? Budgets just before elections tend to be populist Budgets just […]

The term Union Budget came to the fore because India is the Union of States. The Constitution of India has established the federal form of Government in India. Therefore, it is called the Union of States.

Finance Minister presents the annual Union Budget in the Parliament generally on the last working day of February. The Budget is the most extensive account of the Government finances, in which revenues from all sources and expenses of all activities undertaken are aggregated.

Revised Estimates are mid-year review of possible expenditure, taking into account the trend of expenditure, New Services and New Instrument of Services etc. Revised Estimates are not voted by the Parliament, and hence by itself do not provide a35ny authority for expenditure.

The Union Budget presented for 2017-18 was path-breaking in many ways. With it, the day of the budget presentation was shifted from the end of February to the first day of February.

The Indian Union Budget is prepared by the Ministry of Finance in consultation with Niti Aayog and other concerned ministries. Also, the Budget division of the department of economic affairs (DEA) in the finance ministry is the nodal body responsible for producing the Budget.

The key feature of Interim Budget 2024 is that it reiterated government’s commitment to fiscal consolidation and conservatism. It has set 5.1% fiscal deficit target for FY 25. For FY 26, the budget has projected fiscal deficit target of 4.6% of GDP. For FY 24, the revised estimate of fiscal deficit target has been kept at 5.8% of GDP. Fiscal deficit target as a % […]