Budget 2022: RSS-linked body SJM offers some praise, flags some concerns

Lauds 30% crypto tax, push for domestic investment; laments little emphasis on middle class, small-scale industry

While lauding many of the provisions made in Budget 2022-23 that will contribute to India’s economic progress, groups affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) feel the budget could have gone further in some other areas–-specifically, tax breaks in personal income tax and a bigger employment push.

Swadeshi Jagaran Manch co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan said the government could have afforded an income tax cut to the middle class. “The budget itself says collections on account of Goods and Services Tax (GST) are unprecedented.  All other tax collections are up too, as per the Finance Minister herself. I feel a tax cut