To Incentivise Domestic Value Addition And Make In India, Customs Duty Increased On Mobile Phones And Tv Parts

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..... To Incentivise Domestic Value Addition And Make In India, Customs Duty Increased On Mobile Phones And Tv Parts - Budget Dated:- 1-2-2018 - News - To Incentivise Domestic Value Addition And Make In India, Customs Duty Increased On Mobile Phones And Tv Parts Measure Will Help Promote Creation Of More Jobs Customs Duty On Raw Cashew Halved In the first General Budget 2018-19 after th .....

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..... e roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley, made a calibrated departure from the underlying policy in the last two decades, wherein the trend largely was to reduce the customs duty. In the General Budget 2018-19 presented in Parliament here today, Shri Jaitley acknowledged there is substantial potential for domestic value .....

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..... addition in certain sectors, like food processing, electronics, auto components, footwear and furniture. The Finance Minister thus proposed to reduce customs duty on raw cashew from 5% to 2.5% to help the cashew processing industry. To further incentivise the domestic value addition and Make in India, the Finance Minister proposed to increase customs duty on mobile phones from 15% to 20%, on .....

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..... some of their parts and accessories to 15% and on certain parts of TVs to 15%. This measure will promote creation of more jobs in the country Shri Jaitley added. In fact, this will make the domestic items cheaper than imported ones and will generate more demand which, in turn, will create more employment opportunities for the people at large. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - .....

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