Union Budget 2014: What's cheaper and what's costlier

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday spared the common man from price hike by keeping duties on commonly used day-to-day items unchanged but made it costlier for smokers and tobacco consumers with a steep increase in excise rate in tax proposals in Budget 2014-15. Following is a list of what will be cheaper and costlier:

CHEAPER

-CRT television

-LED/LCD TVs especially below 19 inch

-Footwear priced between Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per pair

-Soaps

-E-book readers

-Desktop, laptops and tablets

-RO based water purifiers

-LED Lights, fixtures and lamps

-Pre forms of precious and semi-precious stones

-Sports Gloves

-Branded petrol

-Matchbox

-Life micro insurance policies

-HIV/AIDS drugs and diagnostic kits

-DDT insecticides

EXPENSIVE

-Cigarettes

-Aerated drinks with sugar

-Pan masala

-Gutka and chewing tobacco

-Jarda scented tobacco

-Radio Taxi

-Imported electronic products

-Portable X-ray machines

-Half cut/broken diamonds