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Rediff.com - Dun & Bradstreet India

Exclusive online analysis of Union Budget 2000-01

Rediff.com and Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Pvt. Ltd. are pleased to bring you an exclusive online analysis of the Union Budget 2000-01.

Budget Impact

How will your tax outgo change?
Dun & Bradstreet says that there are very few beneficial provisions relating to individual taxpayers.

On the MAT
Dun & Bradstreet examines the impact of minimum alternate tax on companies.

A matter of life and debt
Dun & Bradstreet says that burgeoning interest payments may lead the government to a point of no return.

The first cut
The Budget is good on intent, but short on measures.

Sector Impact

Automobiles | Banking | Cement | Cigarettes | Computer hardware
Fertilisers | Housing | Paper | Pharmaceuticals | Software | Telecom
Tyres

Prelude
What will Yashwant Sinha do?
Tackling the burgeoning fiscal deficit and sustaining the industrial recovery to fuel higher GDP growth will be the top issues.

India's fiscal report card
Tax collections may see a marginal shortfall but the delay in PSU divestment and a spurt in non-plan expenditure can cause slippages.

How will personal taxes change?
Expectations of tax-payers and the government's wish list.

Sector Analysis

Automobiles | Cement | Cigarettes | Fertilisers | Hotels | Housing
Mutual funds | Paints | Paper | Petrochemicals | Pharmaceuticals
Power | Software | Steel | Tea and coffee

The analysis of the Budget 2000-01 is being done by Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Pvt. Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B). D&B is the world's leading provider of business-to-business credit, marketing and purchasing information, and receivables management services.

Dun & Bradstreet India would like to thank the following individuals for their valuable inputs in the pre-Budget and post-Budget analysis: Rajan Nanda, chairman & managing director, Escorts; Arvind Pande, chairman, Steel Authority of India; Satish Reddy, managing director, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories; A D Rebello, managing director, Tata Housing; Anand Jagannathan, director, corporate finance, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson; Sanjeev Jha, group economist, Murugappa Group; Bhaskar Raju, director-finance, Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals; Manoranjan Mohapatra, executive vice president & COO, Hughes Software Systems and A R Rajaram, general manager & company secretary, BPL.