India Assaults Cash Again, 100% Fine For Cash Use Will Boost Bitcoin Price
The Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget to the parliament, India’s most important financial event expected with hopes and worries. The budget was supposed to help an ailing economy hit hard by the demonetization of 86 percent of the currency in circulation on Nov. 8, 2016. The government proposes to cut taxes for the people in the lowest income tax slab to five percent from the current 10 percent. The government is also planning a massive penalty on cash use come April 2017. An exercise in populism. Indian media outlets had been predicting a populist budget....
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