Live | Highlights of Budget 2023: New tax regime, PAN to be used as common identifier

Hello and welcome to The Federal‘s live coverage of Union Budget 2023-24. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Budget today (February 1). This was Narendra Modi government’s last full Budget before the 2024 general elections.

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This was Sitharaman’s fifth straight budget. Dressed in a red saree with black and golden border, Sitharaman continued with the tradition she set in 2019, carrying the budget speech in a bahi khata, which she used after ditching the briefcase. She kept a digital tablet in a red bahi khata style pouch.

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Sitharaman on Wednesday called on President Droupadi Murmu before presenting the Union Budget 2023-24. As per established tradition, the Finance Minister met the President at the Rashtrapati Bhawan before heading to Parliament.

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