{"id":7443,"date":"2022-02-01T19:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2022-12-22T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:25:03","slug":"budget-2022-key-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/business-banking\/budget-2022-key-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2022 Xplained: 15 Key Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Budget 2022 Highlights: Our Honorable Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled the first post-vaccine Budget of India. The Union Budget 2022 aims to boost income for businesses, in a bid to revive economic growth. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s futuristic and inclusive Budget laid out a blueprint for the Amrit Kaal which aims to benefit the country&#8217;s youth, women, farmers, the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes. And, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he PM GatiShakti lays the following four priorities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PM GatiShakti<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inclusive Development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Productivity Enhancement &amp; Investment, Sunrise Opportunities, Energy Transition, and Climate Action<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financing of Investments<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While no significant income tax changes were made in the Budget 2022, the government did announce measures for small businesses and startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"border-radius: 3px; background: #68458A; padding: 15px; font-weight: 600; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: white;\" href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/x\/?r=blog_cta_business_banking_business_budget_2022&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=cta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">Explore RazorpayX<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read on to know the key highlights of the Union Budget 2022 proposed on 1st February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7446 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/post-budget-infographic.png\" alt=\"Budget 2022\" width=\"18080\" height=\"28032\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While no significant income tax changes were made in the Budget 2022, the government did announce measures for small businesses and startups. Read on to know the highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":7444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,71],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-banking","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}