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Mixed results so far on Budget announcements

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With five months of financial year 2015- 16 left, the time is right to assess the progress of announcements made by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget for 2015- 16.
The government cleared confusions relating to tax matters.
However, most of these relate to Jaitleys maiden Budget for 2014- 15.
The finance ministry also did away with minimum alternate tax ( MAT), not only on foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), but also on businesses without permanent establishment in India. However, this was not a Budget announcement, but a fallout of the proposal that did away with MAT on FPIs prospectively.
The most important of these measures was to be the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST) from the next financial year. The Constitution Amendment Bill in this regard is stuck in the Rajya Sabha. The Congress, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and left parties are opposed to it in the present form, despite a Rajya Sabha select panel altering the contentious one per cent tax on inter- state sale of goods. If the Bill is not passed in the winter session of Parliament, it would be difficult for the government to introduce it from April 1, 2016, since state legislatures will also have to pass the bills.
The government has already reached an agreement with the Reserve Bank of India on the monetary policy committee (MPC), which will fix policy rate. Though RBI governor Raghuram Rajan is not likely to be given a veto, the central bank will have a majority in the committee, unlike previous proposals.
The finance ministry has described the Bankruptcy Law as the next big reform. A committee, headed by T K Viswanathan, is expected to submit its report on the issue to the government shortly. After this the draft Bill will go to the Cabinet and finally Parliament. The Law is expected to make important changes to processes for liquidation and revival of companies.
On Public Debt Management Agency ( PDMA), the plan is to constitute a shell PDMA first to set up infrastructure required to issue government securities. This will require Parliament’s assent as well.
Business Standard, New Delhi, 2nd Nov. 2015

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