Today’s special Budget edition offers a rich range of comment from leading economists and tax experts. Here is what they have to say:
The edit points out that Nirmala Sitharaman has chosen to not rock the boat in this minimalist Union Budget but the talk of a K-shaped recovery, the lack of jobs and therefore of the need for more consumption support at the base of the pyramid has had little or no impact on the government’s thinking. Read it here
A K Bhattacharya points out that though the Budget has made public finances more transparent, its