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For FY23, with the ceiling of net borrowing at 4% of GDP and an additional 0.5% of GDP conditional borrowing by states announced by government, the net borrowings are pegged at ₹6.6 trillion, and gross borrowings are expected to come around ₹9 trillion after taking a repayment of around ₹2.4 trillion.

Fireballs juggled well; brickwork laid for growth

4 min read . Updated: 03 Feb 2022

Budget 2022: An attempt to boost compliance

2 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ahead of the Union Budget 2022-23 presentation in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi. (Amlan Paliwal)

Budget retains growth focus

3 min read . Updated: 03 Feb 2022

Budget sets up digital pitch for India to bat on

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and members of the finance ministry at North Block in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: Bloomberg)

A budget to fire up all growth engines: Kumar Birla

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

Focus on capex will boost job opportunities

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

Green, digital blueprint for the 100-year mark

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

Budget’s focus is on disciplined spending

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

Karthik Ganesan and Nikhil Prasad Ojha, Partners – Consumer Products Practice, Bain and Company

Budget 2022: Private consumption expenditure and demand

4 min read . Updated: 01 Feb 2022

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as she leaves her office to present the Budget 2022 in the Parliament (REUTERS)

Ten key things to know about the budget

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2022

A reckoner of big issues to watch out for in the next Union budget

6 min read . Updated: 26 Jan 2022

The budget should help channel savings into appropriate sectors

3 min read . Updated: 21 Jan 2022

The budget must aim at reforms and create new shock absorbers

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

Photo: iStockphoto

Board evaluations mustn’t just be tick-the-box exercises

4 min read . Updated: 30 Mar 2021

Income Tax Department considers only Form 26AS while giving TDS benefit to taxpayers. Photo: Mint

For individual taxpayers, no big relief in budget

4 min read . Updated: 03 Feb 2021

Expenditure secretary TV Somanathan. (Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Decision on jab funding will be made by 31 March: TV Somanathan

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Bloomberg)

Opinion | Budget 2021: Gunning for growth

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

Opinion | A reassuring Budget focused on growth, investment & jobs

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

The finance minister had the onerous task of igniting growth in the economy and get India back to 8-9% growth levels (Bloomberg)

Absence of covid cess, no increase in income tax slabs come as a huge relief

3 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

The government has been pushing for ethanol production with surplus sugar production depressing sugar prices and consequently increasing the dues of sugarcane farmers

Budget offers no relief for farm sector in distress

4 min read . Updated: 02 Feb 2021

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