No pandering, smart adjustments and boosting urban redevelopment are budget’s highlights
Sticking to fiscal consolidation will help draw in private investment. To complement it, Budget 2024 could have resorted to ambitious privatisation and easing compliance burden
Implications of Budget 2024 announcements on indirect taxes
Budget 2024 has implemented the recommendations by the GST council by bringing in changes in the finance act. The measures will boost manufacturing sector in India and improve ease of doing business
Startups and VCs cheer the 'Reform and Rationalize' Budget
Budget 2024-25: With this move PM Modi is being hailed as the 'Startup PM of India'. These changes will fuel startup fundraising and ensure that startups lead the charge.
Capital gains rejig in Budget 2024 strengthens asset allocation framework
The budget's long term capital gains provisions will reduce excess allocation of capital to one particular asset class. Another important long term benefit would be rapid formalisation of real estate investment and better capital flows from real estate into financial assets
On course, onward: The Budget gets down to issues at micro level
The rise in capital gains taxes and STT has much do with the recent caution by our regulators regarding the exuberance in the markets
Budgeting for the future, while maintaining fiscal prudence
This year's Union Budget focused on the growth of the informal sector; from skill enhancement for youth, credit flow to MSMEs, to income enhancement measures for the rural sector. Here's what the budget had to offer the financial sector
Will Budget's measures on infrastructure development spur private capex recovery?
In keeping with its conservative fiscal path, the government proposed to support states with long-term loans, viability gap funding and also multi-lateral funding o support large projects.
A push towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ in Budget 2024
Lowering customs duty for specific products in the budget is carefully designed approach to promote domestic manufacturing
With Budget 2024, government plugs into energy transition in a big way
Several initiatives announced in the Union Budget are both visionary and practical
A Budget remarkable chiefly for what was left unsaid
Budget 2024-25: It remains to be seen whether policy continuity, sans new reforms, will be sufficient to support elevated equity valuations
Budget 2024 changes will boost GIFT City IFSC’s growth trajectory
This year's budget has put retail Schemes and ETFs in IFSC under the same tax regime as Category IIII IFSC AIFs which spells good news for the fund management ecosystem as it will attract more global fund managers
Renewed focus on agriculture sector in the Budget to support rural economy
The Union Budget 2024-25 has stepped up allocations for agriculture and rural development but could have done more in certain areas
Near-term consumption kicker in Budget 2024
Budget 2024-25: Fiscal benefits for creating new jobs and changes in the new income tax regime will put more money in the hands of a demographic with high propensity to consume
No major consumption boost in Budget, but Street remains optimistic
The Budget 2024 did not contain measures that could directly benefit consumer demand, preferring to invest in building blocks that could lead to future consumption opportunities
Did Budget 2024 just add to the woes of PSU banks?
FM Sitharaman’s Budget lacked any major banking sector reforms, except some finetuning of the IBC process. It’s a missed opportunity
With Budget behind, bond market’s fortunes now lie in the hands of foreign investors
A lower fiscal deficit target in the Union Budget 2024 should inspire any fence-sitting foreign investor to make a go for Indian bonds
Tax tweaks in Budget 2024 sabotage market sentiment
Budget 2024-25: Tax changes have punctured played the spoilsport and may succeed in keeping retail investors out of derivative markets
How traders are positioned ahead of the Budget trading
Budget 2024-25: Explosive movements typically mark budget days, with the market making swift and decisive shifts in one direction or the other
No need to raise capital gains tax for now
It could hit emerging equity culture, hurt foreign inflows. The government should hold its hand at this stage of the development of Indian stock markets and economy
Rural Consumption: Where are the gaps, asks Economic Survey 2023-24
The key takeaway from the Survey about rural consumption is that it is doing as well as it can and the main efforts should be focused on providing the masses with the right infrastructure, business opportunities, diversifying away from problem areas and encouraging more private investment in agriculture
Address bottlenecks to private sector participation in infra play: Economic Survey 2023-24
The survey points to the lack of an independent regulator for infrastructure, which will expedite resolution of litigations and any bottlenecks in these projects which have long-gestation periods
Economic Survey projects conservative growth forecast for FY25, but leaves jobs and private investment puzzle unanswered
India’s GDP level is at the pre-pandemic trajectory, the Economic Survey reveals. It means that the speed of the GDP expansion has ensured no permanent loss in output and demand. Though, employment remains a crucial link between growth and prosperity
Spot a fresh whiff of realism in the Economic Survey
The underlying message of the Economic Survey is that in today’s uncertain global environment riven by geopolitical uncertainties, the domestic economy must take the lead and it is up to the private sector to step up to the plate and deliver
Can bond market make fiscal discipline look like a stimulus?
Fiscal prudence can lead to a sovereign rating upgrade and lower bond yields, says Economic Survey
Tackling Climate Change: The real issue lies in finding the money
The moot question that emerges from the Economic Survey 2023-24's assessment of India's fight against climate change is how soon and how effectively the government can address the challenges of reducing emissions
