Union Budget 2025: Middle-class tax relief, urban growth measures hold key for FMCG stocks
FMCG sector awaits measures from the Finance Minister aimed at stimulating demand and spuring consumption growth
Union Budget 2025: Investors eye GST cuts, regulatory clarity to revive insurance stocks
Investors are eyeing clarity on key issues such as GST rate changes for retail and health insurance, amendments to the Insurance Act
Union Budget 2025: Will tax reforms, capex surge lift banking stocks?
Banking sector is eagerly awaiting measures in the 2025 Union Budget to stimulate credit expansion and improve liquidity, fostering future growth
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Union Budget 2025: Focusing on 3Cs – Consolidation, Capex and Consumption
Income tax collection as percentage of GDP has overtaken corporate tax collection at 3.5% of GDP in FY24 vs corporate tax collection at 3.1% of GDP
India's educational system is awaiting a suitable budget
India faces declining school enrolment figures, particularly at secondary levels, alongside inadequate education infrastructure. Low education funding remains a challenge, with calls for increased investment, improved facilities, and a focus on skill development.
Budget 2025 Expectations Live: Key industry expectations, analyst projections as Budget day approaches
Budget 2025 Expectations Live: Among the anticipated focus areas for Budget 2025 are increased capital expenditure, higher investments in agriculture, and a modest rise in the subsidy bill.
Budget 2025: India Inc’s Achilles Heel -- MSME credit gap
By refining the National Credit Guarantee Scheme, expanding targeted support for NBFCs and fintechs, and making formalization pathways more flexible, Budget 2025 can translate aspirational policies into tangible, on-the-ground impact
Budget needs to focus on local infrastructure to enable creation of jobs
Post-pandemic structure of the job market shows retrogression, with a part of the workforce going back to agriculture. This trend has acted as a drag on earnings growth of labour. Research shows that the multiplier from public investment in local infrastructure comes through MSMEs and feeds into a positive environment for job creation. That should be a focus area in the budget
Time ripe for streamlining withholding tax in the budget
The current withholding provisions provide for seven rates. Having multiple rates creates confusion for taxpayers and increases compliance costs and even leads to litigation if TDS is deducted under certain incorrect provisions. The Government can consider rationalising the rates under four broad categories
Budget 2025: Growth slowdown, global challenges can best be countered by capex focus
The budget for the next fiscal year must endeavour to retain focus on capex and maintain it at levels in the range of 3-3.4% of GDP, which will be the highest in nearly two decades. That in turn will aid state level capex and help crowd in private corporate investments
Daily Voice: Vikas Khemani believes finance minister has a tough job balancing socialist and capitalist priorities in Budget 2025
Vikas Khemani does not believe that FM choosing for a higher fiscal deficit target for FY26 will be seen as a major negative by markets, if the measures taken point towards economic growth revival.
Budget 2025: Time to revamp personal taxation, reward taxpayers
Union Budget 2025: The government should focus on incentivising taxpayers by raising exemptions, revising tax slabs, enhancing deductions, and lowering LTCG and STCG rates.
Budget 2025: Tech industry bats for deeptech fund, tweaks in safe harbour rules' threshold
Creation of a grant framework for the deeptech ecosystem, and making the deferment of the time of payment of tax on Employee Stock Option Plan available to employees of all DPIIT-recognized startups also tops the Budget expectations of the industry
Budget 2025: Hospitality sector seeks infra status, rationalisation of tax rates
The Hotel Association of India President also recommended that the government’s plans to develop 50 new tourism destinations should include incentives for building infrastructure such as hotels, entertainment centers, and convention halls
Budget 2025 Expectations Updates: Less than a week to go; check key expectations from upcoming Budget
Budget 2025 Expectations Updates: The upcoming budget is expected to outline the government’s economic priorities, focus areas, and fiscal strategies for the year ahead, amid key domestic and global economic challenges.
Dalal Street Week Ahead: Budget 2025, Q3 Earnings, FOMC meet, US GDP among 10 key factors to watch
The market may continue to consolidate further, taking cues from Union Budget, FOMC meeting, quarterly earnings, US GDP numbers for December quarter, and ECB meeting, experts said.
Daily Voice: Incentivizing green energy, attracting foreign investment likely seen in Budget 2025, says this fund manager
According to Rishabh Nahar, the equity markets could continue to experience extreme volatility following the budget.
Union Budget: Achieving fiscal discipline and supporting growth
The upcoming budget will be closely followed by the RBI's policy meeting on February 7. This will be the first policy of the new RBI Governor, Sanjay Malhotra. The RBI has to handle the tough trinity of depreciating currency, tight liquidity conditions, and moderating growth.
Sports sector urges budget boost for 2036 Olympics dream
The government needs to enhance grassroots infrastructure and promote public-private partnerships to make India an elite sporting nation, said experts.
Budget 2025 Expectations Updates: Halwa ceremony sets the ball rolling for Budget presentation on Feb 1
Budget 2025 Expectations Updates: Amid GDP growth moderation to 6.4% this fiscal, compared to 8.2% in the previous fiscal, the Budget is expected to address key economic challenges.
Daily Voice: HDFC AMC's Rakesh Sethia believes govt to achieve FY25 fiscal deficit target and likely to maintain 4.5% target for FY26
Overall, the commitment to the fiscal consolidation path supports more favourable borrowing conditions for corporates, said HDFC AMC's Rakesh Sethia.
Budget 2025: FM Sitharaman participates in customary halwa ceremony marking final stage of Budget preparation
Sitharaman is set to present her eighth consecutive Union Budget for 2025-26 on February 1
Budget 2025: IT industry asks SEZ tax holidays, related benefits to be continued for maintaining global competitiveness
Experts say export incentives and skill development programs are key to solidifying the country’s position as a premier destination for ER&D services, too.
