•     12% excise duty imposed on branded retail garments

•     Baggage allowance for people of Indian origin increased from Rs25,000 to Rs35,000 and for children to Rs15,000.

•     5% customs duty exempted on equipment for fertilizer plants

•     Customs duty on bicycles and parts increased.

•     Advalorem duty on some cigarettes

•     Automated shuttle looms exempted from customs duty

•     Basic customs duty on cigarettes reduced; duty on hand-rolled beedis increased

•     Branded silver jewellery fully exempt from excise duty

•     Customs duty on import of parts of aircraft, tyres and testing equipment fully exempted

•     Customs duty on refined gold doubled

•     Customs duty on some gold and platinum products increased

•     Customs duty on standard gold bar and coins exceeding 99.5% purity, platinum and non-standard gold raised

•     Customs duty reduced from 7.5% to 2.5% for iron ore equipment

•     Cuts customs duty on rail equipment to 7.5% from 10%

•     Excise duty on handmade and semi-mechanised matches reduced from 10% to 6%

•     Excise duty raised to 12% from 10%

•     Full exemption from basic customs duty for equipment for road and highway construction

•     Full exemption on customs duty on coal

•     Import of aircraft parts exempt from basic customs duty

•     Increased customs duty on gold and platinum to 4% from 2%

•     LCD and LED panels exempted from custom duty

•     LNG out of customs duty

•     Mobile phone parts exempted from basic customs duty

•     No change in peak customs duty

•     Standard excise duty hiked to 12%

•     Thermal power companies exempted from customs duty for 2 years

•     To raise duty on large cars to 27%

•     Gold jewellery not bearing brand name to be included in the one percent levy on precious metal jewellery.

•     Full exemption from basic customs duty on natural gas, LNG, uranium for generation of electricity for two years.

•     Securities Transaction Tax (STT) reduced from 0.125 percent to 0.1 percent.

•     Tax exemption of up to Rs5,000 for health insurance for annual preventive health checkup.

•     Exemption from interest for saving bank accounts up to Rs10,000

•     All services to be taxed except 17 items listed in the negative list.

•     Income Tax deduction of 50% on investments of up to Rs50,000 in savings scheme named after Rajiv Gandhi.

•     10000 crores allocated to NABARD to fund RRBs

•     Agri credit target for FY12-13 at Rs5.75 lakh crore, up Rs1 lakh crore

•     Agriculture credit target raised to Rs5.75 lakh crore

•     Allocated Rs 25,555 cr for Right to Education in FY13; cuts interest rates on loans to women self help groups

•     Allocation to National Rural Livelihood Mission for women increased by 34%

•     Allocation under National Rural Health Mission raised to Rs20,822 crore from Rs18,115 crore

•     Allow ECB for low cost housing projects

•     Amendments to FRBM Act part of the budget

•     Central subsidies to be under 2% of GDP

•     Coal India advised to sign FSA with power plants

•     Credit guarantee fund for loans to students

•     Current account deficit to be at 3.6%; Expect current account defict to decrease next year

•     Defence Budget hiked by more than 17%

•     Direct Tax Code implementation deferred

•     Economy to grow at 7.6% in 2012/13

•     Efforts to arrive at broad-based consensus with state governments on allowing FDI in multi-brand retail up to 51%

•     Expect average inflation to be lower next year; expect current account deficit to be lower next year

•     FM announces new equity savings scheme

•     Focus on removing infrastructure bottlenecks

•     Food Security Act will be fully provided for and subsidy to be 2% per cent of GDP for next two years

•     FY12-13 net market borrowing at Rs4.8 lakh crore

•     GDP expected to grow at 6.9%

•     GDP to grow by 7.6% in 2012-13; plus, minus 0.25%

•     Government to raise Rs30,000 crore in 2012-13 from disinvestment of stake in PSUs

•     Govt doubles allocation for tax-free bonds to Rs60,000 crore for financing infrastructure projects in 2012-13

•     Govt to fully provide for food subsidy and food security act in 2012-13

•     Gross tax receipts at 10.77 lakh crore

•     Headline inflation to moderate further in next few months and remain stable thereafter

•     High crude oil prices hit growth, averaged $115/bbl in 2011-12

•     Installation of solar plants exempted from CVD

•     Interest subsidy for women SHGs up to Rs3 lakh at 7%; 3% more for SHGs that repay promptly

•     New Income Tax Slab:

       upto Rs.2 Lakh – NIL,

       Rs.2Lakh to 5Lakh – 10%,

       Rs.5Lakh to Rs.10Lakh – 20%,

       Above Rs.10Lakh – 30%

•     New Rajiv Gandhi Equity scheme to allow for 50% deduction to small investors

•     No change in corporate tax rates

•     Oil cess on domestic crude raised to Rs4,500 per ton from Rs2,500 per tonne

•     Pilot project for direct transfer of subsidiary for kerosene has been initiated in Alwar, Rajasthan

•     Propose central KYC depository

•     Raises Income Tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakhs from Rs 1.8 lakhs

•     Rs 15890 crores for recapitalization of PSU banks

•     Rs 18660 crores will result from service tax rise

•     Rs 30,000 cr divestment target in FY 13

•     Rs 50,000 tax exemption for retail investors

•     Rs14,000 crore for rural drinking and sanitation in FY12-13

•     School education exempt from service tax

•     Securities Transaction Tax (STT) may be abolished

•     Service tax up from 10% to 12%

•     Service tax up from 10% to 12%; Rs18,660 crore will result from service tax rise

•     Tables a white paper on black money issue

•     Tax exemption on individual share investment below Rs10 lakh

•     Tax free bonds of Rs10,000 cr for IRFC

•     To address black money, corruption in public life

•     To allocate Rs 14232 cr to UID project, up 13% in FY 13

•     To allocate Rs14,232 crore for UID project, up 13% in FY12-13

•     To allow qualified foreign investors in Indian corporate debt markets

•     To enhance supply side; cut infra bottlenecks

•     To introduce new law for micro finance institutions

•     To introduce new Rajiv Gandhi equity scheme

•     To move national housing amendment bill

•     To roll out computerized scheme for fertilizer subsidy transfer