union budget 2014-15
Announcing the Union Budget 2014-15 on Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that air travel in the country will be notably improved through the development of new airports in smaller cities and towns. The government’s plans for better airport connectivity in regional areas are apparently rooted in the fact that though airport travel has increased [...] Continue Reading »
The Union Budget 2014-15 has given a noteworthy boost to the real estate and infrastructure sectors of the country. Among the key proposals of the government in the recently-presented Budget are tax incentives for two new investment products — Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs). The proposed tax incentives for REITs and InvITs will [...] Continue Reading »
In Budget 2014-15, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday, an outlay of Rs 37,880 crore has been proposed to be sanctioned for building 8,500 km of National Highways and roads in the country during the ongoing fiscal year. Proposing to sanction the mentioned outlay, Jaitley said that the National Highways Authority of India [...] Continue Reading »
In the Budget 2014-15, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday, income tax rates remain unchanged; while a proposal for reviving the revised Direct Taxes Code (DTC) will be considered by the government after taking into account the comments of stakeholders. With the promise that no tax changes will be brought on with retrospective [...] Continue Reading »
The Budget 2014-15 – presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday – marked the maiden Budget of the newly-formed NDA government. Experts are of the opinion that the Budget is quite a ‘balanced’ one. Pushing for an all-encompassing agenda, the Budget predominantly underscores the new government’s comprehensive focus on macro-economic stabilisation, reduced inflation, sustained [...] Continue Reading »
The Union Budget which will be presented on July 10, Thursday will have a lot of leeway for the affordable housing segment which will give an up thrust to the housing for all by 2022 scheme. Interest rate subvention for the economically weaker section, lower income group and middle-income group homes will help India Inc. [...] Continue Reading »
India Inc. is waiting for the maiden budget of the Modi Government to be presented on July 10, with a bated breath. The realty sector which is reeling under the pressure of debt and sluggish demands is waiting for the some of their long-awaited demands to come to reality and give a turnaround to the sector. [...] Continue Reading »
According to Hemant Kanoria, Chairman and Managing Director of Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd, the 2014 Rail Budget has – unlike the Rail Budgets of the previous years – broadened the scope of participation of the private sector. The observation by Kanoria comes against the backdrop of the fact that the Rail Budget this year is largely [...] Continue Reading »
The forthcoming Indian Budget 2014 to be presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has a lot of expectations from all the strata of the society. The realty sector is a critical sector of our economy and it has been struggling under high mounting debts and lowered demand. Since it has a multiplier effect on [...] Continue Reading »
Railway officials in Mumbai are hopeful that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government will give a push to the first Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed train proposal in the 2014 Railway Budget — the first rail budget of the Modi government. The projections voiced by the Mumbai Railway officials about an expected push to the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train [...] Continue Reading »
