This budget meets all the challenges that our economy and our polity faces in the next fiscal year. We need to sustain a high rate of growth and therefore this budget builds upon the good performance of the current fiscal year’s 8.6 % growth rate to a projected 9% growth rate for which adequate provisions have been made particularly in the area of infrastructure and in social sector plus agricultural development.
Marginal hike in threshold limit for taxation. Age limit for senior citizens lowered. No tax returns, Removal of deduction for employer contribution to new pension system,New simplified return form “sugam” to be introduced for small tax payers covered by presumptive taxation
