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67 New Express and 26 Passenger Trains to be Introduced :- The Minister of Railways Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal has announced the introduction of 67 new Express trains, 26 passenger trains, 5 MEMU services and 8 DEMU services while presenting the Railway Budget 2013-14 in Parliament today:-
Download Speech of Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal introducing the Railway Budget, 2013-14 on 26th February 2013 Highlights of The Railway Budget – 2013-14 Thrust 1. Safety; 2. Consolidation; 3. Passenger Amenities; 4. Fiscal Discipline. Some Achievements/Initiatives • IR enters the one billion tonne Select Club joining Chinese, Russian and US Railways;
This week is important from the economic view point as the Government would unfold its economic performance and agenda in the form of economic survey, railway budget and Union Budget for next fiscal- something for which the entire nation and investors all over the world excitedly wait for.
CMA Arif Farooqui As next year budget is just round the corner, everyone is expecting something from Finance Minister but we should understand, he has some limitations due to heavy fiscal deficits. There are numbers of points which we are expecting from this budget but I would limited my article to points which affecting salaried […]
The 2013-14 Budget will be presented when the Indian economy is going through one of its most difficult phase. The 2012-13 Budget had forecast a growth rate of 7.6% and an inflation rate of 6.5%. In the first half of 2012-13, the economy grew by around 5.3% & likely to be almost same in the […]
With India’s GDP growth rate having regressed to its 10 year low, the upcoming Union budget would be excessively important in salvaging the situation. The 25 bps Repo rate cut in Jan-13 has set the tone for encouraging capital formation and investments. However, the moderation in the government borrowing is necessary for the commercial sector to raise the needful resources at viable cost.
I believe the key to 2013-14 budget will be to rein in fiscal deficit, control expenditure (slashing subsidies etc), show buoyancy in tax revenues (without raising rates) and yet present a people and investment friendly budget. Many of these issues will conflict each other and the trick for the FM would be to balance all of these.
Raise personal income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh, reduce service tax and excise tax to eight per cent from 12 per cent and increase deduction of interest on housing loan to 5 lakh to revive consumer demand and boost investment, ASSOCHAM said in its pre-Budget recommendations to the government. The effective rate of corporate tax should also be brought down to 25 per cent from 32.45 per cent at present.
Software is not exempted from Service Tax because it does not appear in the List of Negative Services. Service Tax shall be levied or not is decided on case to case basis depending upon the location of service recipients. If the service recipient is located outside India, Service Tax is not leviable.
As we are witnessing the major changes in the Service Tax Rules/Acts recently. Under Reverse Charge Mechanism the service recipient is liable to pay the service tax instead of service provider. However in certain cases both service provider and service recipient has been made liable to pay service tax. The service receiver has to register himself under service tax and service receiver cannot claim general exemption limit of 10 Lakh rupees.
