https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=32563 Congress criticised the Union Budget 2025-26 as politically targeted and substantively inadequate, offering relief mainly to taxpaying middle-class voters and select electorates while failing to address four interlinked economic problems: stagnant real wages, weak mass consumption, sluggish private investment, and a complex GST. The party highlighted lower revised revenue and net tax receipts, significant cuts to total and capital expenditure across health, education, social welfare, agriculture, rural and urban development, and minimal real-terms increase for railways, and accused the government of favouring certain states electorally. en-us Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:46:03 +0530 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:46:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=32563 Congress criticised the Union Budget 2025-26 as politically targeted and substantively inadequate, offering relief mainly to taxpaying middle-class voters and select electorates while failing to address four interlinked economic problems: stagnant real wages, weak mass consumption, sluggish private investment, and a complex GST. The party highlighted lower revised revenue and net tax receipts, significant cuts to total and capital expenditure across health, education, social welfare, agriculture, rural and urban development, and minimal real-terms increase for railways, and accused the government of favouring certain states electorally. News - Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:46:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=32563