{"id":162035,"date":"2022-01-15T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=162035"},"modified":"2022-01-15T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T14:35:16","slug":"wishlist-for-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wishlist-for-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishlist for the budget\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">News: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Every budget offers an opportunity in the hands of the government to initiate a lot of reforms.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What should the upcoming budget focus upon?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Simplify the tax calculations:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Instead of layers of taxation, there should be one simple tax rate.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prime land, long leases:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> This will lead to increase in revenue, government here will sell land on prime locations at long leases (of 99 years or 999 years). This will help the public, it will cut commutes, make the cities more efficient, and raise money.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Indian Special Administrative Region: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">One of the existing Indian cities can be converted into a world-class, fully liberal, governed-by-different-laws city like Dubai or Singapore.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">For this, government will need to legally carve out a territory to do business and have some flexible laws, best suited to it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Government should lower GST on tourism and transportation, this will give the industry a much-needed boost<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Minimum wage: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">India should have a <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">minimum wage for labour<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Domestic help,<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> for instance, can be hired at any salary, with no holidays all year around. That isn\u2019t dignified and creates huge scope for exploitation. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dignity of people along with economic growth is what makes a country truly developed, not just rich<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What should be an ideal budget like?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A truly liberalised, economy is one where the budget day shouldn\u2019t matter as much. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">No one day of the year should impact the economy or lives of 1. 4 billion people. Budget announcement should be just a means with the government to collect and spend its money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Source:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wishlist for the budget\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">published in\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Times of India<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> on<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a015th\u00a0Jan 2022<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Every budget offers an opportunity in the hands of the government to initiate a lot of reforms.\u00a0 What should the upcoming budget focus upon?\u00a0 Simplify the tax calculations: Instead of layers of taxation, there should be one simple tax rate.\u00a0 Prime land, long leases: This will lead to increase in revenue, government here will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wishlist-for-the-budget\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wishlist for the budget\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-162035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914565},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}