Income Tax

Screen showing Budget at Bombay Stock Market (BSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photo: AP)

Takeaways from India’s budget that slashes income tax on the salaried middle class to spur growth

NEW DELHI, February 1, 2025 (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government presented an annual budget to Parliament on Saturday that focused on wooing the salaried middle class with tax cuts and spurring economic growth by boosting agriculture and manufacturing. In her budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government is focused on

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Retired woman managing on a low income. (Photo: Getty Image)

How income tax rate tweaks will boost middle class spending

NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The Indian government on Saturday announced the biggest income tax relief in at least a decade to boost consumer demand to revive growth in the world’s fifth-largest economy, giving a huge relief to millions of households grappling with high inflation. India’s economic growth is expected to slow to a

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A man walks past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India. (Photo: PTI)

Sensex, Nifty end flat in highly volatile trade on Budget day

Mumbai, Feb 1 (PTI) Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended flat in a special trading session on Saturday as investors saw little coming in from the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for retail investors and the overall markets in the Union Budget. But, buying in consumption-related sectors after Sitharaman exempted annual income of up to Rs

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