Budget 2022: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman apologized to middle class taxpayers after presenting the Union Budget on Tuesday, February 1. No changes have been made in the budget regarding income tax this year. In such a situation, since the presentation of the budget on social media, middle class and salary taxpayers are expressing dismay.
Presenting the fourth consecutive budget as Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman kept herself away from any change in income tax slabs. The pressure on the middle class has also increased due to the challenges created by the Corona epidemic. When the Finance Minister was asked why no tax relief was given in the budget for the middle class, she said, “I do not want to give any stereotyped answer. If I want to say, I can answer this question. That not increasing the tax is a relief in itself. But I will not say so. Sometimes it happens that you have to wait a long time for some things. So I apologize that this time it did not happen.”
With this, Sitharaman also said that she is regretting it. Although it should also be seen that I did not increase the tax not only this year but last year also.
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She said, “I would like to say again that I have not increased the tax for the last two years. Nor have I tried to get any additional revenue through income tax. Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed me to That no matter how much trouble may be, but in the time of this corona epidemic, the burden of income tax should not increase on the people. We have followed this.”
Rahul Gandhi said – nothing for poor, middle class and youth in the budget
While the central government is describing the budget as a visionary and a fast-pacer of the economy, the opposition has termed it as a betrayal with the common man. Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi tweeted that there is nothing in this budget for job profession, middle class, poor and downtrodden, farmers and youth. Rahul Gandhi tweeted and wrote, ‘Zero even budget of Modi government – in which there is nothing for the salaried class, middle class, poor and deprived, youth, farmers and MSMEs.
Sitharaman took a jibe at Rahul
Responding to Rahul Gandhi’s statement, Nirmala Sitharaman said that Congress leaders give statements without thinking. He said, ‘I pity people who react too quickly. Just because you want to comment something on Twitter won’t work for you. First they should do something in Congress ruled states and then speak about it.
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