Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today tabled the Economic Survey for 2008-09 that prescribes doing away with cess, surcharges on taxes, including Fringe Benefit Tax, and sweeping reforms in areas like petrol pricing and financial sector.
The Survey comes days before the presentation of the general budget by Mukherjee and is the progress card on the economy for the year gone by and also makes sugestions for the government.