Category Archives: Union Budget

Good News For First-Time Home Buyers!

An important announcement was made in the Union Budget 2016,where first time home buyers will benefit from an additional tax relief of Rs 50,000 per anum, where the cost of the house doesn’t exceed Rs 50 lakh and the loan amount is Rs 35 lakh. In this video, Adhil Shetty – Founder & CEO, BankBazaar, breaks down this information for us and tells us how the budget will impact Home Loan borrowers.

GST: Will bludgeoning bats continue to torment?

Of late, consumers and enterprises in India have been feeling a lot like Aussie bowler Mitchell Johnson in the recent AUS-NZ World Cup face off. If Johnson was left battered after having ducked blow after bludgeoning blow from Kiwi batsman McCullum’s willow, Indian taxpayers find themselves doing some ducking of their own. For, they end… Read More »

7 things the Budget missed out on

It is said that “there are two sides to every story”, and it surely applies to this year’s Union Budget. When Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley delivered his first full fledged Budget, analysts and experts are out debating its overall sentiments. While some feel that it is reform oriented, with a roadmap for the future,… Read More »

Bankers and borrowers hope to breathe easy on Budget Day

With the annual budget just around the corner, expectations from the Finance Minister are sky high. Considering the fact that this is going to be the first full-fledged budget of the Narendra Modi government, this budget is definitely a high-profile one if not anything else. From the common man on the street fed up with… Read More »

2014 budget – The expectations!

The New Government is in place. So, obviously a new finance minister too is in place. Even more obviously the expectations have begun about what the upcoming budget holds in store for us, the citizens of India.   Although the way in which the government has been given a majority, many people expect drastic changes… Read More »