Financial Technologies-MCX and NSE become friends again

Financial Technologies (India) scored a key victory in its battle with the National Stock Exchange, its second one after it earlier got a favourable order from the Competition Commission of India. The company today announced a settlement of a case it had filed against the National Stock Exchange of India in the Bombay High Court.

Corporate Income Tax: small benefits, but SEZs dealt a MAT blow

The Special Economic Zone tax bonanza will end, if the Budget proposals pass in their current form. Barring this, the Budget does not have any nasty surprises for companies.

Highlights:
The corporate surcharge has been lowered from 7.5% to 5%. That reduces the effective corporate tax rate from 33.2% to 32.4%, which is a nice, even if small, relief for Indian companies. The new rate will be 30% plus a 5% surcharge, which works out to 31.5%, and after adding the education cess of 3%, it works out to 32.4%.

Individual Income Tax: loose change for the salaried, hurrah for the elders

The government did not disappoint on expectations that it would increase the tax exemption limit for individuals. But it did nothing very dramatic on this front.

Budget 2009-10: Impact on Industry

Income Tax
This was a big disappointment to those expecting a bagful of goodies from the Indian government, that the Union Budget 2009-10 would cut dividend distribution tax, corporate tax rates will be cut and so on. There was no change in the corporate tax rate.
 

Individuals and the Budget: No major tax reliefs, no major pain

There was little to cheer for the individual tax payer in the 2009-10 Union Budget. The view perhaps is that the burden on him has been lowered substantially in the past few years. Hence, there is no reason to do a lot this year.
 

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