Nine Pillars for Expenditure and Investment
(i) Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare: with focus on doubling
farmers’ income in five years;
(ii) Rural Sector: with emphasis on rural employment and
infrastructure;
(iii) Social Sector including Healthcare: to cover all under welfare
and health services;
(iv) Education, Skills and Job Creation: to make India a
knowledge based and productive society;
(v) Infrastructure and Investment: to enhance efficiency and
quality of life;
(vi) Financial Sector Reforms: to bring transparency and stability;
(vii) Governance and Ease of Doing Business: to enable the people
to realise their full potential;
(viii) Fiscal Discipline: prudent management of Government
finances and delivery of benefits to the needy; and
(ix) Tax Reforms: to reduce compliance burden with faith in the
citizenry
The thrust of my tax proposals this year falls in nine categories:-
(1) Relief to small tax payers.
(2) Measures to boost growth and employment generation.
(3) Incentivizing domestic value addition to help Make in India.
(4) Measures for moving towards a pensioned society.
(5) Measures for promoting affordable housing.
(6) Additional resource mobilization for agriculture, rural economy
and clean environment.
(7) Reducing litigation and providing certainty in taxation.
(8) Simplification and rationalization of taxation.
(9) Use of Technology for creating accountability.
Source: Full Budget Speech http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2016-17/bs/bs.pdf
Source for the pic http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=137006
Key Reform Measures in Budget speech 2016-17
1. The Government is firm on its course towards fiscal consolidation without compromising on its development agenda. 3.5% fiscal deficit is targeted for FY 2017.
2. Total allocation for Agriculture, Farmers’ welfare and Irrigation set at Rs. 47,912 cr, which is nearly twice the allocation of the previous year.
3. New Health Protection scheme will provide health cover up to Rs. 1 lakh per family and additional Rs. 30,000 for senior citizens.
4. Free LPG connections will be provided in the name of woman member of a family to 1.5 cr BPL households in 2016-17 and to continue for two more years to cover 5 cr households in total.
5. Massive increase in public spending on infrastructure to Rs. 2.21 lakh cr, an increase of 22.5% over the previous year.
6. Higher Education Financing Authority set up, with an initial capital base of Rs. 1,000 cr to promote higher education. In addition, 10 public and 10 private institutions to emerge as world-class Teaching and Research Institutions.
7. Promoting a tax-friendly regime and minimizing hassles due to litigation through a New Dispute Resolution Scheme with low or zero penalties. Ongoing tax cases can be settled with ease.
8. Increased relief for middle-class tax-payers by raising the ceiling of tax rebate under Section 87A to Rs. 5,000 for individuals with income less than Rs. 5 lakhs and by raising the limit of deduction of rent paid under section 80GG to Rs. 60,000.
9. Directly providing financial and other subsidies benefits to people who deserve them by enacting a new law and developing a social security platform using Aadhar.
10. Boosting formal sector employment by provisioning Rs. 1,000 cr towards contributing 8.33% on behalf of all new employees enrolling in EPFO for the first three years of their employment.
11. Simplified and pro-market tax measures such as laying out the roadmap of phasing out of exemptions under Corporate Taxes, abolishing small cesses, providing complete pass through of income-tax to securitization trusts and reducing period of obtaining long-term capital gains treatment for unlisted companies to three years.
12. Promoting entrepreneurship by increasing the turnover limit under Presumptive taxation scheme to Rs. 2 cr, targeting to disburse loans worth Rs. 1.8 lakh cr under PM Mudra Yojana and providing 100% deduction of profits for 3 out of 5 years for start-ups.
13. Facilitating Affordable Housing by 100% tax exemption for profits from small projects, not subjecting distribution REITs and INVITs to Dividend Distribution Tax and encouraging small first-time home buyers by deducting ¬additional interest of Rs. 50,000.
14. Reducing black money through a scheme to declare undisclosed income by paying 45% tax in a given compliance window.
15. Strengthening the financial sector by allocating Rs. 25,000 cr towards recapitalising Public Sector Banks (PSBs), listing Government-owned General Insurance companies, and spelling out a roadmap for consolidating PSBs.
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=137004
Total outlay for roads and railways 2,21,246 cr.
To set up 5700 multiskill s hools to train 1 ccr in three years.
87,000 cr for rural development. 38,500 cr. For mgnregs. 20,000 cr. For irrigation fund under nabard.
27,000 cr for road network,
Will double farmicomes by 2022. Rs. 35,984 cr allocatiòn.
Rediff.com Live commentary
http://business.rediff.com/commentary/2016/feb/29/liveupdates.htm
Live Blog on Budget
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Union-Budget-2016/liveblog/50994438.cms
Live telecast of Budget 2016 - 2017 YouTube Video
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Budget Expectations from People - 2016 - 17
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India TV 28 Feb 2016
http://www.business-standard.com/budget2016
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/budget2016.cms
30 Jan 2016
Subramanian Swamy on Budget
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-budget-2016-subramanian-swamy-urges-centre-to-stress-on-agriculture-sector-2172115
20 Jan 2016
Real Estate Sector - Budget Memorandum
As part of its pre-budget recommendation to the government for revival of the sector, National Real Estate Development Council (Naredco) has sought infrastructure status for the housing sector, industry status of the entire real estate sector, which would help the developers to get bank loans at less interest.
http://www.business-standard.com/budget/article/budget-2016-realtors-seek-loan-restructuring-tax-sops-116012000877_1.html
18 August 2015
Budget Circular for 2016 - 2017
http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/budget/budgetcircular2016-17.pdf
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