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

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 […]

A demand of the oil & gas industry from the budget is to eliminate the import duty on natural gas. Currently, import of natural gas has an import duty levy of between 2.5% and 5%, depending on the form of its import. On the other hand, import of crude oil attracts 0% import duty. Elimination of import duty on natural gas will make it cheaper […]

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

When the expenditures of a government are more than its revenues in a given financial year, it is known as fiscal deficit. When the revenues of the government are more than the expenditures, then it is known as fiscal surplus.