Budget 2021 expectations | Reducing cyclicality of rural household income may get priority

Taxing cigarettes comes as an easy alternative to garner additional revenues. Grant of infrastructure status for hotels, restaurants would lower the cost of funds.

Budget 2021 expectations | Better financing mechanisms needed to keep National Infrastructure Pipeline on track

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.

Consumption: Expectations from Budget 2021

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

Budget 2021 expectations | More income tax incentives for housing purchase necessary to revive realty sector

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.

Budget 2020 | State spend on infra, tax incentives likely to push growth

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.

Sri Sri Tattva's Arvind Varchaswi pins hopes on Budget 2020 to revive demand

"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.

Budget 2020: 'Market may have already priced in a fiscal slippage of 30 bps'

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.

Budget 2019 | Expectations of the infrastructure sector from the government

In this episode of 3 Point Analysis, Moneycontrol’s Jerome Anthony explains the key expectations of the infrastructure sector from Budget 2019.

If I were the FM: Keep interest rates low, boost consumption & remove LTCG

Our prescription is a continued reduction in interest rates while concurrently resolving the transmission challenge, possibly via mandated policies

Budget 2019: Here are the financial services industry bigwigs’ expectations

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.

'India needs exactly what Keynesian economist highlighted in Budget 2019'

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.

Budget 2019: Retailers Association of India submits recommendations

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

Why the government should consider listing LIC (Premium)

Don’t ignore PSUs! CLSA names ONGC, NTPC, Coal India & SBI as its top picks

Among top picks, CLSA bets on ONGC, NTPC, Coal India are top buy ideas among non-fin PSUs, and among financials, prefer SBI.

Budget 2018: What the non-banking financial companies expect from FM Jaitley

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.

Budget 2018: Expectations of the Financial Services Sector

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.

Union Budget 2017-18: 'Affordable housing positive for developers & banks'

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.

Budget 2017 to boost consumer demand in B2B & B2C market

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.

Budget 2017 may encourage fresh inflows in debt: Avnish Jain

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.

Budget sent positive signals to investors: Experts

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".

Budget 2017 is optimistic and realistic: Raghupati Singhania

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.

Union Budget 2017-18: Revival of real estate needs continued support, says Emaar India

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.

Proposed political funding reforms 'inconsequential': ADR

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) keeps a close tab on elections as well as related topics, including on finances of political parties.

Union Budget 2017-18: Big infrastructure push a major takeaway, says Arun Lakhani

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.

Budget aims at fiscal improvement; debt a rating constrain: S&P

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.