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Live Blog: Budget 2013

What follows is my live blog of the budget speech, 2013, on Feb 28 by Mr. P. Chidambaram. Read the full budget speech.  To end: We are the 10th largest ...

The Pre-Budget 2013 Note

Folks, if you’re reading, I’m going to be live blogging and live-tweeting the budget (@deepakshenoy) as it unravels. The more important, and more useful ...

The 2013 Economic Survey In Charts

The Economic Survey is a vast and extremely detailed document that contains a lot of information if anyone bothered to read through it, but most people ...

Chart: Past Budget Day Moves For Stocks

How do budgets work with markets? Let’s see the market moves and expectations in context of both the budget day move in the market index (Nifty) and the day ...

Budget 2013: Taking out STT might reintroduce Long Term Capital Gains Tax

The call to remove Securities Transaction Tax (STT) is often from traders and brokers, looking to decrease their transaction cost. However such an action has a ...

RGESS Tax Sop for New Investors Announced

In another horribly named scheme*, the government has announced an Equity Savings Scheme, named after Ramesh Gelli. No, Ram Gopal (Verma). Okay, it ...

Budget 2012: GAAR Deferred, Taxes at Source Cut

In his prepared remarks introducing the Finance Bill into Parliament today, Indian Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee announced some changes to the ...

Startup Tax: Diluted To Allow "Angels"?

The FM, in his remarks while introducing the Finance Bill today, provided some relief to the startup community by potentially allowing angel investments to not ...

Defining India’s Poor

I write at Yahoo on the recent poverty report: India may be a poor country but we all differ on what "poor" is. There was a furore last year when a ...

Budget 2012 Expects To Cut Petrol Subsidy 35%

Apparently, in this budget, we are going to cut the petroleum subsidy by a mind-boggling 35%. By nearly 25,000 crores (Rs. 250 billion *) From the budget ...