Budget 2025: What To Expect

As Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to unveil her eighth Union budget, all eyes are on the government's strategy to boost economic growth and job creation amid a challenging political landscape.

The markets will keep a close watch on announcements aimed at boosting economic growth and on tax reliefs.

Despite widespread excitement, historical data justifies the market's caution in the run up to the budget.

Here's a look at the expectations and hopes from major sectors from the Budget, as pieced together by Mint's correspondents.

With private capex slow to pick up, the government must continue to increase its own capital expenditure and find ways to boost consumption.

The Narendra Modi government has adopted an investment-led growth strategy to accelerate India’s economic prospects—post-pandemic, it unleashed massive public spending. While this economic philosophy has largely delivered in the last three years, is it time for a tweak?

That the government’s fiscal deficit is narrowing in spite of an economic slowdown is commendable. The heavy lifting to support growth will have to be done by RBI via policy rate cuts.

Every week, Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, with easy-to-read charts to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint. This week’s compilation is based on what is likely in the Budget 2025.

To the young, budgets can come across as a rapid-fire of numbers. But they aren’t difficult to understand eitherTo make up for the deficit, the government planned to borrow ₹9.7 trillion. Investments in small savings schemes—estimated at ₹4.8 trillion—are yet another source for expenditure

The Union Budget is a week away. Will the finance minister cut income tax rates? ‘Experts’ are dissecting the many budget expectations through WhatsApp messages. But learning from WhatsApp forwards can be misleading. Read this piece instead—we explain how the taxes impact each one of us.