Budget 2017 Arun Jaitley

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  Union Budget 2017: Income Tax Halved For Income Up To Rs 5 Lakhs, Relief For Small Taxpayers

  This is Arun Jaitley's fourth Budget presentation and first after demonetisation.

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  Union Budget 2017: Income Tax Halved For Income Up To Rs 5 Lakhs, Relief For Small Taxpayers

  This is Arun Jaitley's fourth Budget presentation and first after demonetisation.

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  Arun Jaitley May Lower Corporate Tax In Budget: Deloitte

  Mr Jaitley in his second Budget speech in February 2015 had announced phasing out of tax incentives with effect from April 1, 2017 and reducing the corporate tax rate from 30 per cent to 25 per cent

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  Income Tax Relief Worth 35,000 Crores Could Be Announced In Budget: SBI

  The demonetisation had sucked out 86 per cent of the currency bills from the economy, hurting the demand in a consumption driven economy

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  In A First, Parliament Wraps Up Budget Exercise Before March 31

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the first time presented the annual accounts on February 1 instead of at the end of February as is the usual practice.

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  Listing Process Of Three Rail PSUs Kick-Started By Finance Ministry

  The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management is scouting for merchant bankers to manage the initial public offering (IPO) of the three PSUs, which is under the administrative control of the Rail Ministry.

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  Income Tax Slabs: Here Are New Tax Rates Applicable From April 2017

  Bringing some cheers to the individual tax payers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley halved the income tax rate to 5 per cent for individuals having taxable income between Rs 2.5-Rs 5 lakh compared to 10 per cent earlier.

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  Budget Offers Promising Times For Infra Sector

  Through Budget 2017, the finance minister has continued to demonstrate its growth trajectory and commitment towards pro infrastructure environment, says Mr Kanabar.

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  Budget 2017 Sends Positive Signals To Investors: Experts

  These investments would create opportunities for both domestics and foreign companies to supply equipment and services profitably in this massive infra-modernisation plans, one of the experts said.

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  7 Key Tax Implications For Financial Services Sector

  Section 43D of the Income Tax Act recognises the principle of taxing income from sticky advances in the year in which it is received or credited to the books of account, says Mr Patel of EY.

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  Union Budget 2017: Nitish Kumar Says Disappointed, Raises Black Money Issue

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sided with the Opposition today to harshly criticise the Union budget, calling it "utterly disappointing", and pointing out that it did not clarify how much black money or fake currency was detected since the ban on 500- and 1000- rupee notes on November 8.

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  Rupee Ends At One-And-A-Half-Month High Of 67.47 Against Dollar

  Forex market sentiment turned highly buoyant after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a fiscal deficit target that was in line with estimates along with proposal to further liberalize FDI policy.

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  Budget 2017: Likely Winners And Losers

  The finance minister sought to assure lawmakers and voters that the economic impact of the government's cash crackdown would wear off soon.

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  Union Budget 2017: Arun Jaitley's Budget Balm For Poor Skips Election Freebies

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Union Budget 2017 pledged to hike government spending on the rural poor and cut taxes on Wednesday, seeking to ease the pain of the notes ban in what he called it a "budget for the poor". He promised to double the income of farmers in the next five years and also to bring 10 million households out of poverty by ...

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  Defence Budget Up Over 6% At Rs 2.74 Lakh Crore In 2017-18

  Budget documents show that revised capital budget for this fiscal year is Rs 71,700 crores, but it is not clear whether the Defence Ministry was unable to spend the remaining amount (Rs 6,886 crore) or whether any savings were done.