Budget 2023: What's Cheaper & What's Expensive? Check Highlights Of Budget 2023..


Mohul Ghosh

Mohul Ghosh

Feb 01, 2023


India’s Union Budget 2023 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, emphasizing infrastructure and jobs. Capital investment has increased by 33% to 10 lakh crore, 3.3% of GDP, for the third year in a row.

Budget 2023: What's Cheaper & What's Expensive? Check Highlights Of Budget 2023..

The budget focuses on seven key areas: inclusive development, reaching the last mile, infrastructure and investment, unleashing potential, green growth, youth power, and the financial sector.

Cheaper items include: reduced customs duty on parts of open cells of TV panels, certain inputs for mobile phone manufacturing, seeds used in lab-grown diamond manufacturing, and shrimp feed.

Costlier items include: cigarettes with a 16% hike in tax, compounded rubber with a basic import duty increase from 10% to 25%, articles made from gold bars, and kitchen electric chimneys.

The new income tax regime has reduced the number of slabs from 6 to 5, increased the tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakhs, and increased the income tax rebate limit from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7 lakh. It will now be the default tax option.

The limit for presumptive taxation for MSMEs and certain professionals has been increased to Rs 3 crore and Rs 75 lakh respectively.

Other highlights include:

5.9% deficit target

5% compressed biogas mandate

New scheme for optimal use of wetlands

New Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna 4.0

PM-PRANAM

Gowardhan Scheme

Green credit program

Support for setting up battery energy storage of 4,000 MWh

Rs 35,000 crore set aside for energy transition

50-year interest-free loans to state governments

National mission for vulnerable tribes

Highest-ever allocation of Rs 2.4 lakh crore to Railways

Urban planning focus

Assistance to drought-stricken Karnataka

Enhanced PM Awaas Yojana

National Digital Library for children and adolescents

New sub-scheme for the fisheries sector under PM Matsya Sampada Yojana.


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