TIOL-DDT 1275 · Monday, 11 January 2010 · story 4 of 4

Budget 2010 on Feb 26 – Do send in your suggestions

FINANCE Minister Pranab Mukherji is to present the 2010 BUDGET on 26 February 2010. Usually the Budget is presented on the last day of February, but this year February 28 happens to be a Sunday and so the previous day happens to be a Saturday. So the Budget is on Friday 26 th February. But immediately after the Budget, 27 th and 28 th are holidays. To add to the confusion, the next day March 01 is also a holiday for HOLI. Will the FM ensure that Holi is going to be colourful?

Normally the notifications are dated 1st March – what will be the date of notifications this year? 27th February or 1st March, but since both these dates are holidays, 2nd March? And all of them will be issued on 26 th February!!!

We will start our "BUDGET RUN UP" soon – Please send in your suggestions to budget@taxindiaonline.com.

We will tell the FM what you want in his budget.