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India Union Budget Study-The Union Budget of India, referred to as the Annual Financial Statement Comment-How do you raise taxes while keeping voters happy? That is a key question for Finance Minister P. Chidambaram as he prepares to present his budget to Parliament on Feb. 28. He will need to explain how the government will be able to increase its revenues, while also encouraging the business investment and boosting consumer spending.India Real Time spoke to a few experts on how they expect Mr. Chidambaram to try to walk this tightrope. The Union Budget of India for 2013–2014 was presented by P. Chidambaram on 28 February 2013. Comment-A surcharge is a tax on tax. For instance, if your tax liability for a year is 10,000 rupees ($185), the surcharge would be a tax on 10,000 rupees. Tax consultants expect a surcharge of around 10%, which in this case would translate to 1,000 rupees. Thus, the individual’s total tax liability would be 11,000 rupees ($203).The key question is: where will the government draw the line? Will heavier taxes apply to someone with a total annual income of more than 2 million rupees ($36,700), or of more than 10 million rupees? Budget Announce Time- Until the year 2000, the Union Budget was announced at 5 pm on the last working day of the month of February. This practice was inherited from the Colonial Era, when the British Parliament would pass the budget in the noon followed by India in the evening of the day.It was Mr.Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister of India in the NDA government (led by BJP) of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who changed the ritual by announcing the 2001 Union Budget at 11 am.