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Budget 2013: Chidambaram nets big fish
Budgets presented in the run-up to elections, whether in the pre or post-reforms era, have tended to showcase how much the government is doing for the common man.

Union Budget 2013: Shockwaves on the Rich-ter scale, crorepatis clubbed with 10% surcharge blow
P Chidambaram decided to take a leaf out of the Warren Buffett rule book by whacking the wealthy with a rich tax, though he said it was only for the period of a year.

Union Budget 2013: Chidambaram has it covered for insurers
Insurance CEOs are excited about the proposals announced by the finance minister that make it easier to distribute policies.

Union Budget 2013: Times guide to corporate tax

TNN | | A Times guide to corporate tax.

Union Budget 2013: Budget balm and blow

TNN | | Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday seems to have partly redressed grievances of auto and taxi drivers by including them under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.

Union Budget 2013: New tax malady shows up in CTT scan

TNN | | Commodities transaction tax has made a comeback four years after it was first introduced. The 0.01% CTT on non-agricultural commodities would push transaction costs up 5-10 fold on commodity futures.

Union Budget 2013: Booster dose for agri biotech

TNN | | Indian farmers, agri scientists and agribiotech firms can pull out their farm tools and research equipments as the $5 billion Indian biotechnology industry got a small booster dose of funds and knowledge inputs from P Chidambaram's Budget.

Union Budget 2013: Made-in-India vessels to get a headwind

TNN | | After being ignored in previous budgets, there is finally something to cheer for India's shipping industry this time with P Chidambaram scrapping excise duty on ships and vessels.

Union Budget 2013: Chidambaram has it covered for insurers

TNN | | Insurance CEOs are excited about the proposals announced by the finance minister that make it easier to distribute policies.

Union Budget 2013: Crorepati MPs grin and bear super-rich tax

TNN | | In the end, the FM did deliver on his threat to tax the super rich — 42,800 individuals with declared incomes of more than Rs 1 crore. This, going by affidavits scanned by the Association of Democratic Reforms, includes 315 crorepatis in the current Lok Sabha.

Union Budget 2013: Pearls for Tuticorin port

TNN | | Finance minister P Chidambaram announced big plans for V O Chidambaranar Port at Tuticorin in the Union Budget on Thursday. The port will get a new outer harbour that will add 42 million tonnes of capacity .

Union Budget 2013: Traditional therapies to get a leg-up

TNN | | The Budget has done its bit to promote alternative therapy for curing your aches and pains. Traditional therapies like ayurveda, unani, siddha and homoepathy medicines may get a boost through an allocation, while the impetus given to medical research and science & technology will benefit pharma companies.

Union Budget 2013: A major hike of 60% for minorities

TNN | | The minority affairs ministry’s allocation has been hiked by 60% of what it spent in 2012-13, a big increase considering the fiscal crunch the government faces.

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