Showing posts with label Budget 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget 2016. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2016

Pre-Budget 2016 last strokes

Budget Run Up – The Last Strokes
The long wish list of the budget 2016-17 in the double-digit growth pitched economy has GST implementation as the top agenda and implementation of recommendations of Justice Eswar Committee on tax reforms as the second top item.

Farm sector and rural development find a big surge in the budget run up news columns. Declining credit is a cause for worry in these sectors as the banks hit by NPAs and loan write-off are in no mood to oblige the farmers. Agriculture infrastructure targeting market yard digitisation and revamp calls for a big ticket from the challenging budget 2016.  A separate budget for agriculture would have made lot of sense but the government has no such plans. Still hopes ride high in this sector.

Make-in-India requires a big manufacturing push and this is possible mostly with the MSME  sector that has so far drawn little attention.

MSME  Ministry recently redefined the eligibility criteria whereby the aggregate value of the Plant and machinery under the same ownership located anywhere will be reckoned to classifying as MSME, providing for vertical growth. This will correct the distorted subsidy regime engendered by horizontal growth.