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Budget 2016: "Barriers to Exit" Still Loom Large above the Indian Economy

The Eco Survey for 2016 is out and upon us! And in typical Capital Mind fashion, we look to dissect it to find out the points that really drive home, the key ...

Budget 2016: Subsidies like PPF, LPG and Kerosene Have Seen the Not-So-Poor Benefit by 100,000 cr.

Subsidies are usurped by the rich, and it goes to say that much of the benefits that subsidies are supposed to provide, happen to be used largely by the rich ...
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EcoSurvey: 400K Cr. Stuck in Bad Debt, Need to Tax RE/Agriculture, Only 5.5% Earners Pay Tax

The Economic Survey 2016 is out and it states very interesting points. (Note: All bold points are my doing, not the survey’s) 400,000 cr. stuck in DRT ...

Budget 2016: Securities Transaction Tax Is Only 2% of Personal Tax Collections, But Is Still Unlikely To Be Removed

With a couple of days to go for the Union Financial Budget of 2016-17, we take a closer look at the Union Financial Budgets of the previous year to see how ...
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Budget 2016: Will The Government Tax Long Term Capital Gains from Stock Markets?

Much speculation exists that the government will change the nature of Long Term Capital Gains tax for equities – from zero to…something. For the ...
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RBI Swaps Government Debt In Its Own Book Instead of Finding a Market Trade

In the Budget, we asked the question: Is a 30,000 cr. debt switch planned for March? Of course it was, it turns out. The government was looking to switch debt ...

Budgetonomics 2015: The EBook Free For Capital Mind Premium

Every year we produce a book on the Budget called Budgetonomics. It’s about the Budget. The What, the Why, the How and the Who Does It Affect. The ...

A High Service Tax Means Do Not Make In India, Buy From Abroad

Service Tax was hiked to 14% in this budget. The FinMin folks seem to think this is just a gradual move towards the GST rates of 20% or so, since manufacturing ...

You Will Not Believe The Real Cost of the Subsidized Insurance and Pension Schemes In The Budget

There were three new “social” schemes in the budget. These sounded like big government expenditure and the devil is obviously in the details. We ...

RBI Agrees To Meet 4% Inflation Target, + or – 2%, Starting Jan 2016

Inflation targets are now at 4% starting Jan 2016. This is now a stated goal, with the Government and the RBI agreeing on it. Plus, the RBI needs to come back ...