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Economists expect fewer handouts this year, after last year’s budget focused on social policies and cushioning the impact of inflation and a higher GST.

Budget 2024: Jefferies anticipated a mere 7-8 per cent growth in the government capex budget for FY25 and suggested that such a move could disappoint the stock market

Currently, various measures have been taken by the GOI, like the introduction of FAME subsidy, state policies, the setting up of EV charging ecosystems, and the rolling out of PLI schemes. For the Union Budget 2024, the industry expects long-term measures that promote EV adoption, such as reduced GST rates, extensions of FAME-II subsidies, and increased infrastructure spending for changing infrastructure.

Better-than-expected tax revenue could ease the governmen't task of balancing its books

The government is expected to increase spending in infrastructure and health sectors, but tax relief for the middle class doesn’t seem to be on cards.

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iAfrica 4 days ago 2 min read Share with your network! th annual  Financial Mail Top Analyst awards were announced online on 25 May 2021. The  Financial Mail, in association with Iress and the JSE, recognises South Africa’s top analysts in the institutional stock broking industry. Forty research and six non-research categories were assessed to determine the past year’s top perfor...

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File photo of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Parliament. | PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday will present the Union Budget for 2021-’22. While speaking at a virtual event of the Confederation of Indian Industry last month, Sitharaman had asked for inputs to formulate a Budget “like never before”. This was significant as it came in the year of the coronavirus pandemic and an unprecedented lockdown, as well as when the economy plunged to bran...