Union Budget 2024: What is cheaper? What is costlier?

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The new regulations significantly increase the stamp duty on rent and lease agreement. Representative image: Manorama Online.

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her seventh straight budget on Tuesday. Here's a list of items that will become cheaper and costlier after the budget:

Cheaper

  • 3 cancer medicines 
  • Mobile phones, chargers
  • Imported gold
  • Imported silver
  • Leather good
  • Seafood
  • X-ray tubes
  • Prawns, fish feed
  • Steel 
  • copper
  • Capital goods for use in the manufacture of solar cells and panels
  • 25 critical minerals
  • Broodstock, polychaete worms, shrimp and fish feed
  • Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) used for manufacture of spandex yarn
  • Oxygen free copper used for manufacture of resistors

Costlier

  • Plastic items
  • PVC flex banners
  • Solar glass and tinned copper interconnect
  • Ammonium nitrate
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