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Jan 28, 2021 02:35 PM IST Taxing cigarettes comes as an easy alternative to garner additional revenues. Grant of infrastructure status for hotels, restaurants would lower the cost of funds.
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Jan 24, 2021 02:58 PM IST Infrastructure project financing in India is predominantly from the banking sector and a few infrastructure NBFCs. It is important to strengthen the existing infrastructure NBFCs for enhancing their ability to finance projects.
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Jan 18, 2021 09:25 AM IST The focus would be to reverse the labour migration caused by the pandemic and encourage employment for low-skilled workers within the labour-intensive industries
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Jan 17, 2021 03:44 PM IST The affordability of housing projects had been one of the major constraints for demand. Various states had provided time-bound relaxation in stamp duty on housing purchase, which was seen to have a positive impact on sales. The budget could consider further steps to improve affordability.
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Feb 01, 2020 08:05 AM IST FInance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to announce plans to spend over Rs 102 trillion on roads, ports, airports, irrigation and other infrastructure over the next five years.
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Jan 29, 2020 04:58 PM IST "With some fiscal stimulus in the Budget, we see the FMCG sector growing at 10% to 12% p.a. over the next 2 two years," he said.
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Jan 16, 2020 11:57 AM IST Agriculture and allied primary activities, infrastructure, banking, and financial services, especially the non-banking sector, and auto are the sectors that may receive attention in the Budget, says Dr Joseph Thomas of Emkay Wealth Management.
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Jul 05, 2019 07:38 AM IST In this episode of 3 Point Analysis, Moneycontrol’s Jerome Anthony explains the key expectations of the infrastructure sector from Budget 2019.
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Jul 01, 2019 11:20 AM IST Our prescription is a continued reduction in interest rates while concurrently resolving the transmission challenge, possibly via mandated policies
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Jul 01, 2019 09:58 AM IST The budget could further the agenda of building a new India and is expected to open the doors of opportunities to investors in financial markets across asset classes.
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Jun 28, 2019 12:24 PM IST Rural employment programs and employment generation schemes will receive a higher share of attention and allocation. Apart from these schemes, affordable housing and infrastructure related schemes should also hog the limelight.
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Jun 18, 2019 02:34 PM IST RAI has recommended that the threshold for the 5 percent slab on GST on apparels and clothing should be increased from Rs 1,000 per piece to Rs 2,000
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Jan 17, 2019 01:37 PM IST Among top picks, CLSA bets on ONGC, NTPC, Coal India are top buy ideas among non-fin PSUs, and among financials, prefer SBI.
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Jan 31, 2018 09:17 AM IST Despite these similarities between a bank and an NBFC, there is difference in the applicability of various tax provisions which puts NBFCs in a disadvantageous position. Thus, the need for a uniform tax treatment for NBFCs is expected at par with banks is the need of the hour.
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Jan 27, 2018 03:35 PM IST The Financial Services Industry has been probably one of the most impacted by recent Government initiatives and therefore the expectation that some sops come its way is not unexpected. Below are some of the key asks and expectations of the industry broken up into various sectors.
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Feb 03, 2017 08:22 AM IST Affordable housing being given Infrastructure status is a welcome move and will help in the Housing to all by 2022 mission – it is a big and positive move for developers, banks and housing finance companies.
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Feb 02, 2017 03:48 PM IST The Budget has a positive tone and is in the right direction. The focus on the infrastructure and manufacturing sector will benefit lubricant manufacturers, since we expect this to boost consumer demand in the B2B and B2C market segments.
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Feb 02, 2017 03:16 PM IST The Union Budget has undertaken a fine balance between fiscal prudence and spending by slightly increasing the fiscal deficit target to 3.2 percent of GDP for FY18.
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Feb 02, 2017 03:16 PM IST Along with experts interpreting the budget, Girija Pande, chairman of the Singapore-based Apex Avalon Consulting Pte Ltd, also applauded the decision to abolish Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), saying it had "long outlived its utility and was a hurdle to large foreign investments into India".
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Feb 02, 2017 03:14 PM IST From a macro point of view, the Budget presented by the Finance Minister is a growth-oriented one with special focus on rural, agriculture and infra sectors.
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Feb 02, 2017 03:01 PM IST The Budget presented today focusses on ramping up spending on infrastructure, provides the necessary impetus to Housing for All program and continues the structural reforms initiated couple of years ago.
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Feb 02, 2017 02:54 PM IST Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) keeps a close tab on elections as well as related topics, including on finances of political parties.
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Feb 02, 2017 02:51 PM IST A big infrastructure push along with a substantial hike in provisions for the National Highways in the Union Budget for 2017-18 is a major takeaway and I congratulate the Finance Minister for the growth oriented approach.
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Feb 02, 2017 02:42 PM IST Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Budget for next fiscal in Parliament yesterday in which he planned to cut fiscal deficit to 3.2 percent and 3 percent of GDP for next financial year and 2018-19 respectively. The deficit in the current fiscal is estimated to be 3.5 percent of GDP.