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Union

Rupee comes in Budget at a glance

6 P. Revenue Receipts Ca ta Re e t
Non Tax P. Non Debt Figures in Crore Figures in Crore
Capital
Revenue
1 P. Receipts
GST 36 P.
8 P. Borrowings 1 0 9 202092 1 1 17 2 1 9 1 2 1 9 12
and other
Union Excise liabilities
Duties 13 P 1021 0
3 P. 1002271
Corporation tax
Customs 14 P. Income tax
Rupee goes out 9 2019 20 2020 21 2020 21 2021 22 2019 20 2020 21 2020 21 2021 22
10 P. Actuals Estimate Revised Estimate Actuals Estimate Revised Estimate
Ca ta
Revenue Expenditure
Other P. Centrally sponsored Figures in Crore Expenditures
schemes
expenditure 14 P. Figures in Crore
P. Central Sector
Pension Scheme P.
20
16 P. Interest payments

States’ Share 8 P.
of Taxes and Defence 2 0 0 2 01 0111 2 2929000
Dutiesduties 10 P. 8 72 120 439163 2
Finance P.
Commission and
Other Transfers Subsidies 2019 20 2020 21 2020 21 2021 22 2019 20 2020 21 2020 21 2021 22
Actuals Estimate Revised Estimate
Actuals Estimate Revised Estimate
No e t a ta e e te a e

The Government reduced excise on petrol and diesel to provide cushion from
Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess so its burden is not transferred on
the common man. There is no change in the tax slab

rime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for but citizens above the age of 75 have been
PAatmanirbharta, in the wake of Corona exempted from filing income tax returns.
pandemic, has not only helped to boost the Apart from this, several measures like ease
economy but has also become the most of filing of tax returns, reducing time limit for
talked about word across the globe. The same reassessment from six years to three years
Aatmanirbharta is reflecting in the Budget of etc. are proposed in the Budget.
New India. New policy for Strategic Disinvestment has
When the entire world is fighting a war been approved. The fiscal deficit in FY 2020-
against Corona pandemic, the Central 21 is pegged at 9.5 per cent. While the fiscal
Government has not only taken important deficit in FY 2021-22 is estimated to be 6.8
steps to strengthen infrastructure but has per cent. The Central Government is targeting
also taken various measures to speed up the to bring it below 4.5 per cent of GDP by 2025-
economy. There is no change in the tax slab, 2026.

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