February 01, 2020 03:30 pm | Updated 03:33 pm IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with MoS Anurag Thakur in New Delhi on February 1, 2020.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, 2020 announced cuts in personal income tax, extended tax benefits for affordable housing and gave relief to companies on payment of dividend in the Union Budget for 2020-21 as the government looked to boost consumption to bring the economy out of the worst slowdown in 11 years.
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