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Budget attempted to make domestic industry competitive: Hashmukh Adhia

02 Mar 2016 Evaluate

Delving deeper into budget details, Revenue Secretary Hashmukh Adhia has said that the Budget has attempted to make domestic industry competitive, fuel demand and create jobs. He added that new cesses and duty hikes may have made cars and garments costlier but Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s focus in the Budget 2016-17 was job creation and making taxation simpler, not resource mobilization.

Adhia further said that the budget has targeted a realistic 11 percent increase in tax revenue in 2016-17 and the duty changes in customs and excise are aimed at positively impacting the domestic competitiveness of our local industry. He added that taxing new manufacturing companies at 25 percent instead of 30 percent slab is aimed at boosting manufacturing. 'They will not have to wait for 5 years exemption phase out.' By increasing the limit of composite taxation scheme for small traders from Rs 1 crore to Rs 2 crore, the government has attempted to free them from tax compliance.

The Revenue Secretary said that we want to kick start the economy. First focus is only of growth and employment. Stating that cesses are for specific purposes, he said a lot of spending has been earmarked for farm and rural sector. 'So the Kisan Kalyan cess.' Infrastructure cess was borne out of pollution and traffic congestion in cities and so the levy on cars and SUVs.

He said that the Budget provides relief to small tax payers in the form of higher rebates and a simpler tax procedure for professionals. Individuals in small income bracket of up to Rs 5 lakh have been given relief by increasing the rebate on income tax to Rs 5,000 from current Rs 2,000. If we increase the tax bracket, higher level people benefit more and government losses a lot in giving benefit to higher income people. Instead of that we wanted to give limited benefit but to a deserving category.

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