Budget and your Household

•Corn flakes and sharbat down to 8 % from 16 %

• Custom duty on vitamin pre-mixes to become lower from 30% to 20%

• Excise duty on water purification items slashed to 8%

• Refigeration and cold storage components to become cheaper

• Duty on museli has been halved to 8 %. Branded dairy products also become cheap, as do packaging material like open top sanitary (OTS) cans, aseptic packaging and paper bags

Living room

• Mobile phone, 1 % National Calamity Contingent Duty imposed

•Cigarettes (non filter) up to Rs 1323 per 1000 cigarettes from Rs 546 per 1000 cigarettes

• Set-top boxes to become cheaper

•TV/Music System will get marginally cheaper

Study room

• Wireless data modem card (internet) has been fully exempted

• Writing paper down to 8% from 12%

• Ink for marker pen down to 8% from 16%

Other areas

Washing machine: To get cheaper

Exterior: Cement clinker up to Rs 450 per ton from Rs 350 per ton

Annual vacation: To cost more due to service tax on some tour operators

Toilet

• Cosmetics/Toiletries: CenVAT rate cut on all items. Further, excise cuts on packaging material to make various items marginally cheaper

Parking lot

• Duty on small cars down to 12 % from 16 %. Manufacturers are planning to slash prices

• Duty on Two-Wheelers down to 12% from 16 %

• Excise duty on hybrid cars cut from 24% to 14 %