Arun Jaitley with briefcase Courtesy: Ministry of Finance/GoI
5 August 2014

Poll pledges and budget realities

If Budget 2014 is used as a reference point to examine how closely the Modi government kept to its election promises, it is evidently not easy to extirpate the old ways of doing business. This is clear, for example, in the punitive capital gains tax rate on debt mutual funds. Budget 2015 must correct the anomalies