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Union Budget 2012-13: Policy Paralysis or Insensitive Market Fundamentalism
Union Budget 2012-13: Policy Paralysis or Insensitive Market Fundamentalism
Construction
Trade, hotels, etc Financing, etc. Community, etc GDP
8.0
11.1 10.4 4.5 8.4
4.8
11.2 9.1 5.9 6.9
Particulars
Total Final Cons.Exp
201011
8.1
201112
6.0
8.1
7.8 11.1
6.5
3.9 5.8
Export
22.7
14.1
NonPlan- Plan Exp- Total ExpGDP GDP GDP 10.8 11.2 4.9 4.7 15.7 15.9
2010-11
2011-12 (RE) 2012-13 (BE)
4.9
5.9 5.1
7.3
7.3 7.6
10.6
10.1 9.5
4.9
4.8 5.1
15.4
15.0 14.6
Particulars 2008-09
Direct Tax Corporate Tax 52.8 35.3
2009-10
58.8 39.2
2010-11
56.2 37.7
2011-12
54.8 36.3
2012-13
52.2 34.6
17.5
47.2 16.5 17.9
19.6
41.2 13.3 16.5 9.4
17.5
43.8 17.4 17.4 8.9
18.5
45.2 17.0 16.6 10.5
17.6
47.8 17.3 18.0 12.0
Particulars- Revenue Foregone Corporate Income Tax Personal Income Tax Excise Duty Customs Duty
2010-11 Rs Crore 57912 (10.2) 36826 (6.5) 192227 (33.7) 172740 (30.3) 459705 (80.6) 569869
2011-12 Rs Crore 51292 (8.0) 42320 (6.6) 212167 (33.0) 223653 (34.8) 529432 (82.4) 642252
Lack of Foresight
Increase in allocation on social welfare programmes are either indexed to inflation or real growth in economy Strategic change in agricultural plan is absent, which is still monsoon dependent, with the imperfect markets for inputs and outputs All social security expectations belied lack of new initiatives in tax mobilization and for increasing public expenditure, freeing of foreign investment, nebulous expenditure projection shows both policy paralysis and market fundamentalism mindset.