Month: October 2017

By Mukesh Butani There has been much collective groaning since the goods and services tax (GST) was implemented on July 1. Even before it was

By Brotin Banerjee The Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (Rera), 2016, came into effect in May 2017. While it has had some teething problems,

There are two implications of real estate being brought under GST. One, it will not be possible to spend your black money to buy land

Four months into GST, transporters struggle to find efficiency. Representative image Bal Malkit Singh, the owner of Mumbai-headquartered Bal Roadlines, is facing a new challenge.

A 26 per cent rise in exports in September – the highest in the last six months – could not have come at a better

Those drafting rules have confused everyone Let us put ourselves in the shoes of a GST taxpayer whose turnover is just a notch above ₹1

Highlights MP Police busts international gang behind data theft Former Cognizant and HDFC Bank employees held Debit and credit card details, including the particulars of

By Atul Raja and Kushal Prakash When the number of cellphones sold in India touched the billion mark in 2013, India manufactured very few cellphones.

By Mukesh Butani There has been much collective groaning since the goods and services tax (GST) was implemented on July 1. Even before it was

Either way, this Diwali presents an existential crisis for the art of giving (File) The festival of lights has become an area of fretful darkness.

Ninety-two per cent of those living in rural households (74.18 crore) earn less than Rs 10,000 a month. Whenever we dwell on economic woes confronting

PM Modi has taken a major political risk with these two revolutionary initiatives. The Opposition believes the BJP has been weakened and it fancies a

WASHINGTON: Employment creation, the global slowdown in investments and the possible impact that the US Federal Reserves move normalise monetary conditions can have on emerging

By Nirmal John 2017 was the year when cyber attacks finally became front-page fodder for Indian news media. It is little surprise that this coincided

By Roop Gursahani, Raj K Mani, Srinagesh Simha Mr AS, a frail but sprightly 91-year-old developed pneumonia and was admitted to a suburban Mumbai hospital.

was on a train. There was a notice on the cabin wall detailing the procedure to be followed in an emergency. The first instruction read:

s it possible to claim refund of unutilised input tax credit under the GST?  Under the goods and services tax (GST) regime, refund of unutilised

More than 90 days after the roll-out of the goods and services tax (GST), lenders are gravitating to sanctioning working capital loans, especially to micro

fter the October 6 meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, the finance minister had announced that the process of refund of Integrated

The Supreme Court (SC) has eased the procedure of trial in dishonoured cheques in view of such cases clogging criminal courts. It noted that 20