finance minister pranab mukherjee said that the interest rate subsidy for midsegment housing would be routed to customers through commercial banks and housing companies registered with the national housing bank nhb in order to further provide stimulus to the housing sector he informed the buyers and the realty sector it will be allowed a tax holiday in respect of profits derived from projects approved between april 1 2007 and march 31 2008 if such projects are completed on or before march 31 2012 he elaborated the information and says i expect the developers to pass on the benefit of tax holiday to home buyers by appropriately reducing their prices i am sure that both the expenditure and taxforegone initiatives would provide relief to a large segment of prospective home owners and help revive the real estate sector