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“I don’t expect tax cuts”

New Delhi: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s wife, Nalini, has a simple question for him on the coming budget: “Will any service tax be levied on lawyers?”

The well-known lawyer posed this question when asked at the CNN-IBN awards ceremony what her expectations from the budget were.

Mr. Chidambaram, who won the award in the “Politician of the Year” category, gave a tongue-in-cheek reply: “No one believes that lawyers render any services. So there cannot be any service tax on lawyers.”

“I don’t expect tax cuts. I expect that the budget will have an impact on every part of society,” Ms. Nalini said when asked if she was hoping for any tax cuts. .” — PTI

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