Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has presented the Union Budget 2018 in Lok Sabha today. The Budget 2018 will be different from the 88 previous Budgets in Independent India because of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), imposed on July 1 last year. Usually, a common man avidly waits for the Budget to know what gets costlier and what turns cheaper. However, this suspense is almost over due to the GST.
Budget 2018 - HighLights
- No changes in person tax structure for salaried class and No change in Slab Rates
- 1.44 lakhs crores paid by salaried tax payers. Standard deduction of Rs 40,000 for salaried taxpayers, in lieu of transport and medical reimbursements for salaried classes
- Govt will have a scheme to give every business in India a unique ID
- 100% tax rebate for farmer producer companies having a turnover of Rs. 100 crore:
- Proposes 25% corp. tax rate for cos with turnover upto rs. 250 cr
- Deduction on Health Insurance for senior citizens under 80D increased to Rs 50,000 from Rs 30,000.
- Exemption on interest income from 10K to 15k, no TDS from this for senior citizens.
- Deduction u/s 80DDB to be increased to Rs. 1,00,000 for all senior citizen
- Exemption of interest income annually earned from deposit in banks and post offices to increase from Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000
- Introduces Long-Term Capital Gains Tax. LTCG are now taxed at 10% If capital exceeding 1 lakh. There is a strong case to bring long-term capital gains under the tax net, says the finance minister. Gains over Rs 1 lakh will be taxed at 10%.
- Propose to introduce tax on distributed income by equity-oriented mutual funds at 10%:
- Customs duty on mobile phones increased from 15% to 20%.
- 3% Education cesses to be replaced by a 4% Health Cess
- Govt does not recognize cryptocurrencies as legal tender. govt to consider use of blockchain to move towards digital economy. Rs 3073 crore allocated for Digital India
- Projecting the Fiscal Deficit at 3.3% of the GDP. Revised fiscal deficit estimate for 2017-18 is 3.5% of GDP, fiscal deficit of 3.3% expected for 2018-19
- Sec. 11 exemption to trust/charitable institutions - payments exceeding Rs. 10k in cash to be disallowed and subjected to tax
- India is now a $2.3 trillion economy - will become the world's fifth largest economy soon, We are on course to achieve a growth rate of 8% plus, says
- India 3rd largest economy by purchasing power parity
- India broke in top 100 place for the first time in ease of doing business. FDI has gone up and now it is easier to do business in India:
- 50% MSP to farmers assured. 1.5 times of cost will be the minimum support price for the kharif crop. Government is pledged to get the farmers 1.5 times the value of production costs. Niti Aayog to work with States to arrive at plan for better price realisation
- Operation Green Budget2018 Rs. 500 crore allocated
- The government will set up a fund of Rs 2,000 crore for developing agricultural markets,
- Allocation for food processing increased from Rs 715 cr in 2017-18 to Rs 1400 cr in 2018-19
- India's agri exports potential is as high as 100 million dollars as against the current 30 million dollars
- Propose to launch a restructured bamboo mission with a fund of Rs 1200 crore .
- Kisan Credit Cards to be extended to fisheries and animal husbandry sectors
- Setting up of fishery and aquaculture infrastructure development fund with 10000crs for its development.
- Govt will give free gas connections to 8 Cr women. Ujjwala scheme to give free gas connections extended to 8 cr women from 5 cr earlier
- 6 crore toilets have been built under swachbharat, Plan to build 2 crore toilets in the next fiscal
- Saubhagya Yojana: 4 crore poor will get power connection. The govt will spend Rs 16,000 crore on this scheme. Rs 16,000 Cr Allocation For Electricity Connection To Poor Families
- By 2022, every block with more than 50% ST population will have an Eklavya Model Residential School: Move from black board to digital board gradually
- Allocate Rs 2,600 underground water irrigation plan in 96 districts
- Govt to launch 'Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education by 2022 RISE - Revitalising Infra and Systems in Education by 2022 - 1,00,000 Crores
- Prime Minister Research Fellows scheme will be introduced for BTech students, hey will do PhDs in IITs and IISc. They will voluntarily teach in Higher Education institutions few hours every week
- Announces two major schemes for health, one being health and wellness centres. comprehensive healthcare scheme with maternal and child services, free essential drugs and diagnostics, allocates Rs,12 crore for this flagship programme, invites pvt sector and CSR to support this initiative
- Have decided to take healthcare protection to a new aspirational level. Launching a flagship National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 crore poor and vulnerable families, benefiting approx. 50 crore: Rs. 5 lakh per family for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization WORLDS LARGEST SUCH PROGRAM
- TB - allocate Rs. 600 crore to provide nutritional support to TB patients, Rs. 500 per month to the patients
- 1.5 Lakh Health Centres across India will provide Maternal and Child Care Services. Rs. 1500 Crore in FY 2018-19. Call for CSR adoption also of these centres. The Government is slowly but steadily progressing towards universal health coverage:
- 24 new govt medical colleges and hospitals by upgrading existing district medical colleges and hospital. Ensures 1 medical college for every 3 parliamentary constituencies:
- Rs 16,000 crore will be spent on providing electricity connection to nearly four crore poor households
- Govt will expand PM Jan Dhan Yojana: All 16 crore accounts will be included under micro-insurance and pension schemes
- Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana has benefited 5.22 crore families
- Rs 3794 cr allocated for MSME sector
- Target of 3 lakh crore for lending under PM MUDRA Yojana
- Govt. to contribute 12% of EPF contribution for new employees in all sectors.
- Women's EPF contribution reduced to 8% for first 3 years of employment. no changes in employer contribution
- PM Research Fellow Scheme; 1000 B-Tech students to be selected
- 99 cities selected under smart city mission, to be allocated 2.04 lakh crore
- Outlay of Rs 7148 cr for textile sector in FY19
- 4000 km of rail tracks to be electrified
- Govt will soon announce measures to effectively address NPAs and stressed accounts of MSMEs. This will enable a larger financing of MSMEs:
- All trains to be progressively provided with WiFI, CCTV and other state-of-the-art amenities: Railway capex for FY19 at RS 1.48 lakh crore; focus to be on electrification, safety
- 12,000 wagons, 5160 coaches and 700 locomotives being procured. There is significant achievements of physical targets by Railways
- All railway stations with over 25,000 footfall will have escalators
- 498 Projects worth INR 19428 Crore and 292 Sewage Projects worth INR 14294 Crore under AMRUT scheme
- 600 major railway stations to be redeveloped.
- Mudra loan given to more than 10 crore people of which 7 crore are women and 5 crore from SC & OBC. ₹3 lakh crore more allocated this year.
- Rs 17000 cr has been allotted to create and extent suburban Bangalore railway network
- Rs. 11,000 crore for Mumbai rail infrastructure
- AMRUT program to focus on water supply to all households in 500 cities. Water supply contracts for 494 projects worth 19,428 core awarded
- Govt plans to expand airport capacity by 5 times to 1 billion trips a year. Rs 60 crore has been allocated to kick start the initiative
- Sebi to make it possible for companies to raise 25% of financial needs via bonds
- Exports seen growing at 15 per cent 2017-18, says Arun Jaitley
- 5 lakh wifi hotspots to provide broadband access in rural areas at a cost of Rs 10000 cr
- We now propose to treat education holistically without segmentation from pre-Nursery to Class 12. Rs 1 Lakh crore allocated for education infrastructure.
- 80,000 crore disinvestment target for 2018-19, target for 2017-18 has been exceeded and will reach 1 lakh crore rupees:
- Digital India allocation doubled. 1 lakh villages already connected, 1.5 lakh more villages to be covered under Bharatnet
- Government insurance companies to be merged into a single entity, and subsequently listed in the stock exchange, as part of the disinvestment programme: 3 state-run insurance companies to be merged and listed
- PSU bank recap will allow banks to give additional lending of Rs 5 lakh crore
- National gold policy to be announced, #gold monetisation scheme will be revamped to make it more people-friendly
- Bid for automatic revision of salary for MPs every 5 years indexed to inflation:
- Emoluments of the President to be revised to Rs 5 lakh per month & emoluments of the Vice-president to be revised to Rs 4 lakh per month:
- Total revised expenditures 21.5 lakh crore compared with 21.47 lakh crore estimated
- To help the cashew processing industry, I propose to reduce the customs duty from current to 2.5%
- E-assessment to be rolled out across the country: a new scheme of assessment to be notified eliminating person to person contact:
- Social welfare surcharge of 10% on imported goods.
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