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On ET Now: My Budget Views Involve Railways, Shipping and Defence

On Wednesday I was on ET Now for a short interview on what sectors I thought would do well: The generic summary: Budget expectations are high, but I think they ...

The Final Version of Budgetonomics is Up

The final version of Budgetonomics is here! You will find two new chapters: You’ll find two new chapters: Historical charts: charts on public finance ...

The Government’s Market Borrowings, Added to Budgetonomics + Kindle Version Up!

We have added a new chapter to the Budgetonomics e-book, with The Government Market Borrowings coming in with details of how much government debt outstanding ...

New Chapter in Budgetonomics: More than 573,000 cr. Lost Due To Tax Benefits, in 2012-13

We’ve added a new chapter in the Budgetonomics e-Book about Budget 2013. Looking at the revenue foregone, it seems that the if the benefits given to us (and ...

Service Tax Amnesty Scheme Introduced

While small service providers are exempt from paying service tax until after they receive Rs. 10 lakh in any year, many such providers earn more and don’t ...

Startups In Budget 2013, A Mixed Bag

What’s in it for startups? Last year, we had a horrible section (Read the full e-book) that still works against angel investors in early stage startups. ...

STT Gets Slashed, CTT Comes In

Securities Transaction Tax (STT) is something traders seemed to expect would go away (Read my last post about why I thought it would not be taken out), and it ...

Real Estate: Not A Happy Note

Ramifications of a budget are beyond taxes. But usually, the real estate fellows desire and get a little bit of an exemption here and there. Not this time, it ...

Budget2013: Are You Bored Enough Yet? Pay More Taxes!

It has been an extremely boring budget (except for those in the stock markets who saw the market up 0.5% at the beginning and end up 2% down towards the ...

Dividend Distribution Tax on Debt Mutual Funds Hiked to 25%

From 1 June 2013, any dividends paid out by debt mutual funds to individuals will have to deduct Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) of 25%, regardless of the type ...