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3. Table of Contents
•Economy Overview
•Fiscal Overview
•Balance of Payments
•International Trade
•Inflation
India Economic Highlights
•Administrative & Economic Initiatives
Key Initiatives
•Agriculture
•Real Estate & Housing
•Infrastructure
•Mining & Metals
•Energy
•Banking, Financial Services & Insurance
•Telecommunications & IT
•Services
•Other Sectors
Sectoral Impact
•Direct Tax
•Indirect Tax
Taxation Proposals
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4. 3
India Economic Highlights

5. Economic Indicators
Performance
FY 2013-14
Targets
FY 2014-15
% %
GDP Growth 4.70 5.40- 5.90
Fiscal Deficit to GDP 4.50 4.10
Inflation CPI terms 9.49 8.00
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Growth rate Inflation (CPI) Fiscal Deficit
Interplay - Economic Indicators
Economy Overview
As the new government takes its first step to steer the economy which has seen steep
decline in broad indicators, found its way through roller coaster rupee fluctuations and have
come to terms with current account deficit, a few observations merit value for Union Budget
FY 2014-15.
In FY 2014-15, the Indian economy is all set to grow at 5+ per cent, which it could not make it
to, in the last two years. The reduced speed of growth was felt everywhere, but more so in
industrial sector. Inflation did pace down, but not much. However, CAD did give some relief.
The bull wave of financial markets started, taking a cue from 2nd consecutive decline in
fiscal deficit to GDP ratio. A further fall of inflation can help ease the stance of monetary
policy and boost investor confidence. Performance based moderate recovery of
developed global economies, can help look forward to better growth days in the coming
year and beyond.
Lower monsoon, unstable rupee and geo-political situation in oil-rich areas may pose
significant challenges for the planned growth. The following economic highlights sets one
more milestone in the India growth story.
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6. Fiscal policies to be designed to aid growth and to reach the targeted fiscal deficit.
The fiscal consolidation target in FY 2013-14 was achieved by cut in expenditure which
may impact the overall growth status.
There is a need to re-look at various tax incentives and exemption to improve tax
buoyancy.
Subsidies lead to wastage of scares resources and hence identification of needy
beneficiary and phasing out of subsidies is a need of the hour.
Disinvestment program meets limited success due to conditions in financial markets.
Fiscal Overview
Fiscal Consolidation roadmap Fiscal Deficit of 3% in FY 2016-17
Focus on rationalizing expenditure but without diluting the quality of expenditure
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2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Direct Tax Indirect Tax Total Tax
Tax to GDP Ratio
Revenue Augmentation Measures
Reasons for fall in collection
1. Simplification of tax laws
2. Rationalization of tax holidays
3. Widening of tax base
4. Recovery of arrears
5. Speedy disposal of cases
1. Economic slowdown
2. Reduction in duty rates
3. Fall in dutiable imports
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7. Balance of Payments
Overview
The stress on India’s BoP was felt during FY 2011-12 as a fallout of the Euro Zone crisis and
inelastic domestic demand for certain key imports also continued through FY 2012-13 and
the first quarter of FY 2013-14.
The position of capital inflows during the past three years is as follows:
65.30
92.00
47.90
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20.00
40.00
60.00
80.00
100.00
US$ Billion
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
This moderation in levels
essentially reflects a sharp
slowdown in portfolio
investment and net outflow in
‘short-term credit’ and ‘other
capital’.
Favorable Actions
Non-favorable
Factors
TimelycorrectiveactionsbyRBI
Resulting into
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8. Balance of Payments
306.6
502.2
195.6
318.6
466.2
147.6
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Exports Imports Trade deficit
2012-13 2013-14
Reduction in Trade Deficit (US$ Billion)
10.5% of GDP
7.9% of GDP
47%
40%
25%
-12%
Factors resulting into Reduction in Trade Deficit
Reduction in Import of Gold
& Silver
Reduction in non POL and
non gold imports
Change in exports
Higher imports under POL
and Non-DGCI&S imports
88.2
32.4
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60
80
100
US$ Billion
2012-13 2013-14
Current Account Deficit
4.7% of GDP 1.7% of GDP
292
304.2
US$ Billion
2013-14 2012-13
Leading to
Favorable Forex Reserves
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9. International Trade
Export Composition & Sectoral Performance
Noticeable compositional changes have taken place in India’s export basket between FY
2000-01 and FY 2013-14 with the share of petroleum, crude, and products increasing by
nearly five times to 20.1 per cent, catapulted by its 33.5 per cent growth (CAGR)
Percentage Share CAGR 200-01 to
2013-14
Growth Rate
2013-14
2000- 01 2013-14
I. Primary Products 16.0 15.6 16.9 4.7
II. Manufactured Goods 78.8 63.7 15.1 4.6
III. Petroleum, crude & products 4.2 20.1 33.5 3.0
Total Exports 100.0 100.0 17.2 4.1
Industries including petroleum products, engineering goods, chemicals, agriculture, textile
minerals have contributed to the increase with growth rate of 4.1 per cent while certain
industries like gems & jewelry and electronic goods are still facing negative growth.
Import growth
32.30%
0.30%
-8.30%
-20.00%
-10.00%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
Import Growth
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Deceleration of Import growth
owing to fall in non-oil imports by
12.8 per cent.
Gold Imports:
Gold imports declined from 1078
tonnes in FY 2011-12 to 664
tonnes in FY 2013-14, on the
back of several measures taken
by the government. In value
terms, gold and silver imports fell
by 40.1 per cent to US$ 33.4
billion in FY 2013-14.
India’s Services Trade
6thLargest
Exporter
3.4% share of
world exports
7thLargest
Importer
3% share of world
imports
YOY growth of 4 per cent in FY 2013-14 as
compared to 2.4 per cent in FY 2012-13
Moderate
export
growth
Fall in
imports
Trade Deficit
Fall in Trade Deficit by 27.8%
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10. Inflation
Along with slow growth, inflation continued to be an impediment. Although average WPI
inflation declined in FY 2013-14 to 6.0 per cent from 8.9 per cent in FY 2011-12 and 7.4 per
cent in FY 2012-13, it is still high. Moreover, WPI inflation in food averaged 12.2 per cent
annually in the five years ending FY 2013-14, was steeper than non-food inflation.
Fortunately, the rising inflation that slowed the growth, savings, investment and
consumption, has subsided.
CPI declined from 10.21 per cent during FY 2012-13 to about 9.49 per cent in FY 2013-14.
Fuel inflation was in double digits in the last three quarters. A major reason for high
inflation in fuel and power items was the rationalization of tariff for electricity in many
states, in addition to the policy of allowing greater pass-through in diesel prices and
rupee depreciation.
IMF forecasts commodity prices to remain stable. This will keep WPI in check. However,
sub-normal monsoon on account of El Nino effect and high oil prices due to geo political
situation in Middle East poses risk. Government’s decision on fertilizer subsidy and
increase in Minimum Support Price would also impact food inflation.
The government needs to move towards a low and stable inflation regime through fiscal
consolidation, establishing a monetary policy framework, and creating a competitive
national market for food. Further lower inflationary expectations should increase
domestic household financial savings and make resources available for investment.
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Volatility y-o-y CPI Inflation (%)
Volatility y-o-y CPI
Inflation (%)
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11. Key Initiatives
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Key Initiatives

12. Administrative &
Economic Initiatives
Regulatory Initiatives:
 Sovereign right of the Government to undertake retrospective legislation to be exercised
with extreme caution and judiciousness.
 Legislative and administrative changes to sort out pending tax demands of more than Rs. 4
lakh crore under dispute and litigation.
 Measures for widening the applicability of AAR.
 Introduction of GST to be given thrust.
 Convergence with International Financial Reporting Standard by adoption of the new
Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) by Indian Companies.
Foreign Direct Investment:
 The composite cap of foreign investment to be raised to 49 per cent with full Indian
management and control through the FIPB route.
 The composite cap in the insurance sector & defense sector to be increased up to 49 per
cent from 26 per cent with full Indian management and control through the FIPB route.
 Requirement of the built up area and capital conditions for FDI to be reduced from 50,000
square meters to 20,000 square meters and from USD 10 million to USD 5 million respectively
for development of smart cities.
Budget Estimates:
 Budget Plan increase targeted towards Agriculture, capacity creation in Healthcare and
Education, Rural Roads and National Highway Infrastructure, Railway network expansion,
Clean Energy initiatives, development of Water Resources and River Conservation plans.
 Proposed to establish an Export Promotion Mission to bring all stakeholders under one
umbrella.
MSME Sector:
 Definition of MSME to be reviewed to provide for a higher capital ceiling.
 Fund of Funds with a corpus of Rs.10,000 crore for providing equity through venture capital
funds, quasi equity, soft loans and other risk capital specially to encourage new startups by
youth to be set up.
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13. Sectoral Impact
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Sectoral impact

14. Agriculture
 Agricultural sector has performed remarkably well in FY 2013-14. The agriculture GDP
growth for FY 2013-14 is estimated at 4.6 per cent as compared to 4.0 per cent in last four
years.
 Average level of mechanization in agriculture is only 25 per cent as compared to more
than 90 per cent in developed countries.
 Agriculture export likely to cross US$ 45 billion in FY 2013-14; higher from US$ 41 billion in FY
2012-13.
 Sub-optimal management of food stocks led to wastages, fuelled inflationary pressures
and added to food subsidy outgo leading to wastage of economic resources.
 While the continued growth of Indian agriculture is significant in the context of food
security and climate change, some major concerns remain including soil degradation,
market distortions that prevent creation of national common market and creation of
robust distribution network and warehousing.
 On a positive note, there appears to be no cause of alarm on the El Niño front as India is
well placed on food grains availability, with record domestic production and huge stocks
in the central pool.
Budget Highlights:
 Rs. 1,000 crore provided for ‘Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna’ for assured irrigation.
 More productive and asset creating linkages to agriculture and allied activities would be
provided under MGNREGA.
 Rs. 100 crore set aside for ‘Agri-tech Infrastructure Fund’.
 Technology driven second green revolution with focus on higher productivity and including
‘Protein Revolution’ will be area of major focus.
 Transformation plan to invigorate the warehousing sector and significantly improve post-
harvest lending to farmers.
 Corpus of Rural Infrastructure Development Fund raised by an additional Rs. 5,000 crore
from the target given in the Interim Budget to Rs. 25,000 crore.
 Allocation of Rs. 5,000 crore provided for the Warehouse Infrastructure Fund.
 Rs. 100 crore provided for development of organic farming in North Eastern States.
 Basic Excise Duty on machinery for preparation of fruits, nuts or vegetables, poultry, meat
etc. reduced from 10 per cent to 6 per cent.
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15. Real Estate & Housing
 Smart Cities: A sum of Rs. 7,060 crore is provided in the current fiscal for the project of
developing one hundred ‘Smart Cities’
 Incentives for REITS: Complete pass through for the purpose of taxation.
 A modified REITS type structure for infrastructure projects – ‘Invits’.
 Allocation for NHB increased to Rs. 8,000 crore to support rural housing.
 Extended additional tax incentive on home loans shall be provided to encourage people,
especially the young, to own houses.
 Mission on Low Cost Affordable Housing anchored in the NHB to be set up.
 A sum of Rs. 4,000 crore for NHB from the priority sector lending shortfall with a view to
increase the flow of cheaper credit for affordable housing to the urban poor/EWS/LIG
segment is provided.
 Slum development to be included in the list of CSR activities to encourage the private
sector to contribute more.
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16. Infrastructure
 The 12th Five year plan has laid special emphasis on infrastructure development as
quality infrastructure is important not only for sustaining high growth but ensuring
inclusive growth.
 Today’s outlook portrays stalled infrastructure projects due to economic slow down,
lower demand , sharp rise in input costs and failure of terms of PPP agreements.
 The challenge remains in identification of core set of projects, channelizing investments,
expatiating implementation, maintenance of facilities, co-ordination amongst the
central ministry and balancing of environmental concerns.
 India has further tried to strengthen its railways, road transport, ports and civil aviation
that is an important factor to any infrastructure requirement of a country.
Budget Highlights:
 Vision of the Government is that 500 urban habitations to be provided support for
renewal of infrastructure and services in next 10 years through PPPs.
 Present corpus of Pooled Municipal Debt Obligation Facility to be enlarged to Rs. 50,000
crore from Rs. 5,000 crore.
 Rs. 100 crore provided for setting up a National Industrial Corridor Authority.
 An institution to provide support to mainstreaming PPPPs called 4PIndia to be set up with
a corpus of Rs. 500 crores.
 New Airports: Scheme for development of new airports in Tier I and Tier II cities to be
launched.
 An investment of an amount of Rs. 37,880 crores in NHAI and State Roads is proposed
which includes Rs. 3,000 crores for the North East.
 Target of NH construction of 8500 km will be achieved in current financial year.
 Work on select expressways in parallel to the development of the Industrial Corridors will
be initiated. For project preparation NHAI shall set aside a sum of Rs. 500 crore.
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17. Mining and Metals
 Changes, if necessary, in the MMDR Act, 1957 to be introduced to encourage investment
in mining sector and promote sustainable mining practices.
 To give an impetus to the stainless steel industry, increase in basic customs duty on
imported flat-rolled products of stainless steel from 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent.
 Duty on ship breaking scrap and melting scrap of iron or steel rationalized by reducing
the basic customs duty on ships imported for breaking up from 5 per cent to 2.5 per cent.
 To prevent misuse and avoid assessment disputes, basic customs duty on semi processed,
half cut or broken diamonds, cut and polished diamonds and colored gemstones
rationalized at 2.5 per cent. Full exemption from Basic Customs Duty to pre-forms of
precious and semi-precious stones.
 To encourage exports, pre-forms of precious and semi-precious stones exempted from
basic customs duty.
 Export duty on bauxite increased from 10 per cent to 20 per cent.
 Basic Customs Duty on some stainless steel flat products is being increased 5 per cent to
7.5 per cent.
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18. Energy
Conventional Energy:
 With 78 per cent of total demand of crude met through imports, India needs to resort to
import dependency. To meet ever growing demand for petroleum products, the GOI
has endeavored to enhance exploration and exploitation of petroleum resources,
along with developing a concrete and structured distribution and marketing system.
 Electricity generation by power utilities grew by 6 per cent in 2013-14.
 The overall long term demand for coal is closely linked to the performance of the main
end use sectors, i.e. thermal power, iron & steel and cement. Sharp deceleration in the
production of natural gas in the past two-three years has further increased the energy
sector’s dependence on coal.
 Shale Gas can emerge as an important new source of energy, as India holds several
shale formations.
 Rs. 100 crore is allocated for a new scheme ‘Ultra-Modern Super Critical Coal Based
Thermal Power Technology.’
New & Renewable Energy:
 Rs 500 crores provided for Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects in select states.
 A Green Energy Corridor Project is being implemented to facilitate evacuation of
renewable energy across the country.
 Concessional basic customs duty of 5 per cent extended to machinery and equipment
required for setting up of a project for solar energy production.
 Specified inputs for use in the manufacture of EVA sheets and back sheets and flat
copper wire for the manufacture of PV ribbons exempted from basic customs duty.
 Reduction in basic customs duty & SAD on selected parts and raw materials used in the
manufacture of wind operated generators.
 Concessional basic customs duty of 5 per cent and exemption of Excise Duty on
machinery and equipment required for setting up of compressed biogas plants.
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19. BFSI
 Time bound program as Financial Inclusion Mission to be launched on 15 August 2014
with focus on the weaker sections of the society.
 Banks to be encouraged to extend long term loans to infrastructure sector with flexible
structuring.
 Banks to be permitted to raise long term funds for lending to infrastructure sector with
minimum regulatory pre-emption such as CRR, SLR and Priority Sector Lending.
 RBI to create a framework for licensing small banks and other differentiated banks.
 Differentiated banks serving niche interests, local area banks, payment banks etc. are
contemplated to meet credit and remittance needs of small businesses, unorganized
sector, low income households, farmers and migrant work force.
 Kissan Vikas Patra to be reintroduced.
 A National Savings Certificate with insurance cover to provide additional benefits for
the small saver introduced.
 Service provided by recovery agents (Bank, FIIs, and NBFC) brought under reverse
charge mechanism.
 Service Tax exemption available for specified micro insurance schemes expanded to
cover all life micro-insurance schemes where the sum assured does not exceed Rs.
50,000 per life insured.
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20. Telecommunication & IT
 A series of reform measures by the Government, innovation in wireless technology and
active participation by the private sector played an important role in the growth of the
telecom sector in the country.
 Central Government Departments and Ministries to integrate their services with the e-Biz,
a single window IT platform for services on priority by 31 December 2014.
 Policy for better spectrum management through trading and sharing of spectrum needs
to be looked into so as to bring down the cost of spectrum.
 Pan India program ‘Digital India’ with an outlay of Rs. 500 crore to be launched.
 Program for promoting ‘Good Governance’ to be launched with a sum of Rs. 100 crore.
 Rs. 100 crore allocated for 600 new and existing Community Radio Stations.
 Film & Television Institute, Pune and Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata are
proposed to be accorded status of Institutes of national importance and a ‘National
Centre for Excellence in Animation, Gaming and Special Effects’ to be set up.
 Corpus of Rs. 200 crore to be set up to establish Technology Centre Network .
 A nationwide ‘District level Incubation and Accelerator Program’ to be taken up for
incubation of new ideas and necessary support for accelerating entrepreneurship.
 Rs. 100 crore is provided to set up a Technology Development Fund for Defense.
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21. Service Sector
 Growth of Service sector closely linked to FDI inflows and the role of transnational
firms.
 India’s share in Service Exports grown from 0.6 per cent in FY 1990 to 3.3 per cent in FY
2013. Export of financial services is on a high sky in FY 2013.
 No formal source to count inflation in Service Sector. (Service Price Indices (SPI) have
been developed in few sectors like Telecom, Railways, Postal and Banking on
experimental basis)
Share and Growth of India Service Sector (Provisional Estimate for 2013-14)
Healthcare
 Services by technical testing of newly developed drugs on human participants
brought under service tax.
 For safe disposal of medical and clinical wastes, services provided by common
biomedical waste treatment facilities exempted.
Top Sectors % Share
Trade, hotels and restaurants 24.00
Financing, insurance, real estate & business services 18.50
Community, social and personal services 14.50
Constructions 7.80
Total Services GDP 64.80
Total GDP 100.00
Services
Others
India GDP composition 2013-14
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22. Other Sectors
Rural Development:
 Initial sum of Rs. 100 crore for ‘Start Up Village Entrepreneurship Program’ for encouraging
rural youth to take up local entrepreneurship programs.
Skill Development
 A School Assessment Program is being initiated at a cost of Rs. 30 crore.
 Rs. 100 crore provided for setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface
for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK) and online courses.
 Rs. 500 crore provided for setting up 5 more IITs in Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra
Pradesh and Kerala.
 5 IIMs in the States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Rajasthan.
 Skill India to be launched to skill the youth with an emphasis on employability and
entrepreneur skills.
Automobiles
 ED on parts of tractors transferred/removed within two factories of the same manufacturer
of tractor is being exempted.
Consumer & Capital Goods
 Full exemption from customs duty is granted to de-oiled soya extract and oil cake/oil cake
meal of groundnut, sunflower, canola, mustard and rice bran, up to 31st December 2014.
 Steps taken to boost domestic production of electronic items and reduce our
dependence on imports. These include imposition of basic customs duty on certain items
falling outside the purview of IT Agreement, exemption from SAD on inputs/ components
for PC manufacturing, imposition of education cess on imported electronic products for
parity, etc.
 Color picture tubes exempted from basic customs duty to make cathode ray TVs cheaper
and more affordable to weaker sections.
 To encourage production of LCD and LED TVs below 19 inches in India, basic customs duty
on LCD and LED TV panels of below 19 inches reduced from 10 percent to Nil.
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23. Taxation Proposals
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24. Direct Tax proposals
Individual Income- tax below 60 years
Total income Tax rates
< 250,000 Nil
> 250,000 < 500,000 10%
> 500,000 < 1,000,000 20%
> 1,000,000 30%
Individual Income- tax over 60 years
Total income Tax rates
< 300,000 Nil
> 300,000 < 500,000 10%
> 500,000 < 1,000,000 20%
> 1,000,000 30%
How will the change impact you ( example for individual < 60 years )
Income FY 13-14 FY 14-15 Savings
210,000* 1,000 Nil 1,000
550,000 40,000 35,000 5,000
1,200,000 190,000 185,000 5,000
* Impact of rebate not considered
Individual Income- tax
• Need was felt to encourage household savings that fell from 33.7 per cent in FY
2009-10 to 30.1 per cent in FY 2012-13. To boost such savings it is proposed to raise
the limit of investment linked deduction under section 80C of the Act from Rs.
100,000 to Rs.150,000. Consequently, the investment limits under PPF scheme have
been revised to Rs. 150,000.
• In order to mitigate the high cost housing finance for middle and lower middle
class, deduction limit for interest on loan in respect of self occupied house
property from Rs.150,000 to Rs.200,000.
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25. Direct Tax proposals
Corporate Income- tax
Grossing up of Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) ( w.e.f. 1 October 2014)
The company declaring dividend will have to shell out additional taxes as now it is
proposed to gross up the dividend amount.
Manufacturing Incentive
To encourage investment in manufacturing sector an additional deduction of 15 per
cent under Section 32AC of the Act to continue till the block of FY 2016-17 instead of
FY 2014-15. The limit of minimum Rs. 100 crore investment has been revised to Rs. 25
crore per year prospectively.
Tax holiday for power sector
Extension of the sunset clause for the power sector up till 31 March 2017.
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and Infrastructure Investment Trust (Invit)
Conducive tax regime for new categories of investment vehicles namely the REIT
and Invit have been specified.
Advance for transfer of capital asset
Income generated due to forfeiture of advances for transfer of capital asset to be
taxable as ‘Income from other Sources’. Consequently, no reduction in cost to be
claimed by the transferor while actual sale of the capital asset
Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR expenditure though incurred for the purposes of Companies Act, 2013 cannot
be allowed under the existing provisions of Income- tax Act unless that are incurred
for the purpose of business and meeting the requirements of Section 30 to Section 36
of the Act.
Disallowance of expenditure for non- deduction of taxes
Time limit for payment of taxes deducted from payments made to non residents,
proposed to be extended up to the date of filing of Return of Income under Section
139(1) of the Act.
Disallowance on non payment of tax at source on payments made to residents to
be restricted to 30 per cent of the amount of expenditure claimed.
Scope of disallowance under this provision extended to expenditure on salaries,
director fees and all other expenditure taxable under XVIIB of the Act
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26. Direct Tax proposals
Transfer Pricing and International taxation
Roll Back of Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) [w.e.f. 1 October 2014]
A roll back provision refers to the applicability of the futuristic methodology of
determination of ALP to the past international transactions. Such a roll back has
been proposed for past four proceeding financial years from the previous year for
which the APA applies.
Introduction of concept of range
Inter-quartile range as a concept of benchmarking international transaction is
followed widely internationally. The same is proposed to be implemented as a part
of transfer pricing provisions replacing the concept of arithmetic mean with limited
use of provisions of arithmetic mean where comparable are inadequate. The same
is under analysis and appropriate rules would be framed.
Multiple year data
Currently only one year data is permitted to be used for benchmarking. The same is
proposed to be amended for use of multiple year data. This will also be in line with
international practices.
Amendment to the definition of International Transaction
Section 92B(2) covers agreements between two unrelated parties with substantial
influence from related parties generally referred to as ‘deemed international
transactions’. To end an uncertainty on whether such unrelated party to be a
resident or non- resident, it is proposed to amend the definition to include non-
residents and residents in unrelated parties.
Concessional tax rate on dividends received from foreign companies
With an incentive for attracting repatriation of dividend income earned by Indian
companies from investments made abroad concessional rate of 15 per cent has
been continued.
Concessional rate of tax on overseas borrowing (194 LC) [w.e.f. 1 October 2014]
Concessional rate of withholding tax of 5 per cent to long term infrastructure bonds
is now proposed to be extended to any long term bond
Advance Ruling to apply to resident private companies
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27. Indirect Tax proposals
Service Tax
 Scope of ‘Custom and Central Excise Settlement Commission’ to extend to Service
tax.
 Power of Service Tax Authorities enhanced in case of search and seizure by granting
powers to any other officer notified by board.
 Service provided by Director to body corporate brought under the reverse charge
mechanism.
 Services provided by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation for the period prior
to 1 July 2012 exempted, from service tax.
 Re-credit of CENVAT credit allowed if export proceeds are received within one year
from the end of specified period.
 Value of service portion in works contract relating to movable and immovable
property aligned to 70 per cent (w.e.f. 1 October 2014).
 Variable interest rates (18 per cent to 30 per cent) to be applicable for delay in
payment of tax (w.e.f. 1 October 2014).
 Time-limit for taking CENVAT credit on input and input services shall be six months from
date of invoice or challan or other documents specified.
 Point of taxation as per Rule 7 on reverse charge to be amended to be the date of
payment or the date subsequent to end of three months from the date of invoice,
whichever is earlier (w.e.f. 1 October 2014).
 Abatement rate to be revised to 60 per cent in case of transport of goods by vessel
(w.e.f. 1 October 2014).
Excise and customs:
 The scheme of Advance Ruling in indirect taxes to be expanded to cover resident
private limited companies. The scope of Settlement Commission to be enlarged to
facilitate quick dispute resolution.
 ‘Indian Customs Single Window Project’ to facilitate trade, to be implemented.
 Mandatory fixed pre-deposit of 7.5 per cent of the duty demanded (including
penalty) for filing appeal with the Commissioner (Appeals) or the Tribunal at the first
stage and 10 per cent for filing second stage appeal before the Tribunal (subject to a
total ceiling of Rs. 10 crore).
 On failure to pay duty within a period of one month from the due date, penalty is
payable at the rate of 1 per cent of the duty not paid for each month.
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28. Glossary
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CAD – Current Account Deficit NHAI – National Highway Authority of
India
GDP – Gross Domestic Product NH – National Highway
FCNR – Foreign Currency Non Residential MMDR – Mines and Minerals
Development and Regulation
CPI – Consumer Price Index FY – Financial Year
BOP – Balance of Payments BE – Budget Estimate
POL – Petroleum, Oil & Lubricants ECB – External Commercial Borrowing
YOY – Year On Year RBI – Reserve Bank of India
IMF – International Monetary Fund US FED – United States Federal Reserve
GST – Goods and Services Tax GOI – Government of India
FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion Board CVD – Counter Veiling Duty
FDI – Foreign Direct Investment ED – Excise Duty
MSME – Micro Small and Medium Enterprises CRR – Cash Reserve Ratio
LIG – Low Income Group SLR – Statutory Liquidity Ratio
REITS – Real Estate Investment Trusts PSL – Priority Sector Lending
Invits – Infrastructure Investment Trusts KVP – Kisan Vikas Patra
CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility FII – Foreign Institutional Investor
NHB – National Housing Board BN – Billion
MGNREGA – Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act
NBFC – Non Banking Financial
Corporation
EWS – Economically Weaker Section FDI – Foreign Direct Investment
PPP – Public Private Partnership FPI – Foreign Portfolio Investor
IT – Information Technology IIT – Indian Institute of Technology
BFSI – Banking, Financial Services and
Insurance
DGCI&S – Director General of
Commercial Intelligence & Statistics
IIM – Indian Institute of Management SAD – Special Additional Duty
CAGR – Compounded Annual Growth Rate AAR – Authority for Advance Ruling
The Act – Income Tax Act, 1961