Following are the highlights of Interim Budget 2014-15 :
* Income tax rates kept unchanged
* 10 % surcharge on ‘super-rich’ having annual income above Rs 1 crore to continue
* 10 % surcharge on domestic corporates with income of Rs 10 crore
* Foodgrain production estimated at 263 million tonnes in 2013-14
* Fiscal deficit at 4.6% in 2013-14 and 4.1% next year, revenue deficit at 3% in 2013-14
* Current Account Deficit (CAD) to be $45 billion as against $88 billion in 2012-13
* Excise duty on small cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles cut from 12 to 8%
* Excise duty on SUVs cut from 30 to 24%
* Large and mid-segment cars from 27-24% to 24-20%
* Excise duty on mobile handsets to be 6% on CENVAT credit to encourage domestic production
* Excise duty cut on capital goods, non-consumer durables cut from 12 to 10%
* Moratorium on interest on student loans taken before March 31, 2009; to benefit 9 lakh borrowers
* $15 billion addition to foreign exchange in 2013-14
* Disinvestment target for FY14 cut to Rs 16,027 cr versus Rs 40,000 cr; next year Govt eyeing Rs 36,925 cr
* Lowers residual stake sale target to Rs 3,000 cr from Rs 14,000 cr for this fiscal
* Govt obtains information in 67 cases of illegal offshore accounts of Indians
* Govt’s net borrowing in next fiscal to be Rs 4.57 lakh cr
* Plan expenditure cut by Rs 79,790 cr for current fiscal
* Allocates Rs 1,000 cr more to Nirbhaya Fund
* CCI cleared 296 projects worth Rs 6.6 lakh cr by end-Jan
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