The college organised a webinar “Budget Briefings: Discussion on the Union Budget”. The session was conducted by Sarvesh Mundra. He gave all the students brief impression on the budget. He highlighted certain points. In a year when the world was ravaged with the COVID19 pandemic.
Finance Minister gave health the attention it merited. Health allocation jumped 137% to Rs 2,23,846 crore in 2021-22 compared with Rs 94,452 crore in 2020-21. The Government provided Rs 35,000 crore for the Covid-19 vaccine, and promised to provide further funds, if required. While no changes have been proposed to the personal tax rates, the budget contains various relief measures and proposals to facilitate ease of compliance for the taxpayers. The budget also proposes taxing certain income such as interest accruing in relation to Provident Fund contributions exceeding specified limit, which are presently not subject to tax.
Mr. Vivek Bajaj, an alumnus of IIM and a chartered accountant, also a trader in capital markets. He picked up different sectors and the implication of the budget on those sectors. The Union Budget 2021 had a massive impact on the Indian markets on that day. The benchmark indices, which is Sensex and Nifty recorded the highest budget day gains in more than 2 decades. Nifty was up 4.74% to 14,281.2 and Sensex was up 5% to 48,600.61.
Prof. Mohit Agarwal, faculty of the college spoke about the tax proposals:The theme for the direct tax proposal was simplification of the tax administration, ease of compliance and reduction of litigation. The key aspects of the direct tax proposals impacting individual taxpayers are Extension of home loan interest tax break and Introduction of section 89A. Certain tax proposals include the Hon’ble Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented Finance Bill 2021 and accordingly some changes have been proposed in Indirect Tax Laws.
All the changes in the rate of tax has taken effect from the midnight of 1st of February 2021. Whereas all the amendments in the finance Bill 2021 will come into force from the date of notification issued by the authority.
There were 62 students who attended the webinar and the feedback collected at the end suggested that another webinar like this should be organised.
36 Chambers of Corporate Communications – 12 down, 24 to go! We had 12 regular classes in October. We also had a session with Mr Satyan and Mrs Parul Bhatt, Co-Founders of Prism PR, Chennai. Mr Satyan Bhatt is the ex chairman of the Chennai Chapter of the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) and …
“If you do what you have always done; you’ll get what you have always gotten”. In today’s world passion and vocation can hardly be put in the same bowl but if both find the same destination, nothing can match the consequence. Bhawanipur Education Society College has always emerged as an institution where students are not …
The Department of English, the Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Centre for Disability Research and Training, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, organised a two-day National Level workshop on “Disability Sensitisation” in the Society Hall on 2nd and 3rd May, 2023 from 10am – 5pm. The two-day National Level workshop was …
BUDGET BRIEFINGS: Discussion on the Union Budget
The college organised a webinar “Budget Briefings: Discussion on the Union Budget”. The session was conducted by Sarvesh Mundra. He gave all the students brief impression on the budget. He highlighted certain points. In a year when the world was ravaged with the COVID19 pandemic.
Finance Minister gave health the attention it merited. Health allocation jumped 137% to Rs 2,23,846 crore in 2021-22 compared with Rs 94,452 crore in 2020-21. The Government provided Rs 35,000 crore for the Covid-19 vaccine, and promised to provide further funds, if required. While no changes have been proposed to the personal tax rates, the budget contains various relief measures and proposals to facilitate ease of compliance for the taxpayers. The budget also proposes taxing certain income such as interest accruing in relation to Provident Fund contributions exceeding specified limit, which are presently not subject to tax.
Mr. Vivek Bajaj, an alumnus of IIM and a chartered accountant, also a trader in capital markets. He picked up different sectors and the implication of the budget on those sectors. The Union Budget 2021 had a massive impact on the Indian markets on that day. The benchmark indices, which is Sensex and Nifty recorded the highest budget day gains in more than 2 decades. Nifty was up 4.74% to 14,281.2 and Sensex was up 5% to 48,600.61.
Prof. Mohit Agarwal, faculty of the college spoke about the tax proposals: The theme for the direct tax proposal was simplification of the tax administration, ease of compliance and reduction of litigation. The key aspects of the direct tax proposals impacting individual taxpayers are Extension of home loan interest tax break and Introduction of section 89A. Certain tax proposals include the Hon’ble Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented Finance Bill 2021 and accordingly some changes have been proposed in Indirect Tax Laws.
All the changes in the rate of tax has taken effect from the midnight of 1st of February 2021. Whereas all the amendments in the finance Bill 2021 will come into force from the date of notification issued by the authority.
There were 62 students who attended the webinar and the feedback collected at the end suggested that another webinar like this should be organised.
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