India cut taxes for the country’s middle class, putting about $12 billion more in their pockets as the Narendra Modi-led government aims to bolster consumption spending.
Indians with annual income up to 1.2 million rupees ($13,854) will effectively be exempt from paying income tax, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Saturday in her budget speech, raising the cap from 700,000 rupees.
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