The Budget of Disappointed Expectations
... tax rate will be reduced from 30% to 25%, which, according to Arun Jaitley , “accompanied by removal of various kinds of tax exemptions and incentives for corporate taxpayers”, should increase tax revenues and the attractiveness of the Indian economy for business, including foreign companies. The external conditions favor economic reforms, but Narendra Modi is more a politician than an economist and is afraid to lose political capital at the very beginning of his term. The new budget puts ...