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India needs more tax payers. Countries where people paid more income taxes are ones that developed for various reasons. The relationship between State and the

February 2018 taught me — and I hope many others — a lesson in politics: that 25 years are long enough to erase memories of

The Centre proposes to appropriate much of the taxes and duties on petroleum products, at the expense of state governments. The Budget proposes to label

The IMF today said the tax collection assumptions in India’s budget is ambitious but there is a need to look into the fiscal implications of

India’s exports grew by 9 per cent to USD 24.38 billion in January, helped by a healthy growth in shipments of chemicals, engineering goods and

Oil prices on Thursday extended gains, pushed up by a weak dollar and by comments from Saudi Arabia that it would rather see an undersupplied

रिझव्‍‌र्ह बँकेने आपल्या सलग तिसऱ्या पतधोरण आढाव्यात ‘रेपो दर’ आहे त्या स्थितीत कायम ठेवण्याचा निर्णय घेतला. वस्तुत: हे अनपेक्षितही नव्हते. त्यापेक्षा प्राप्त परिस्थितीचे रिझव्‍‌र्ह बँकेकडून

On February 1, about 41 minutes into his Budget 2018 speech, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley delivered the piece de resistance: “Madam speaker, my government

Over the past six months, the Indian rupee has appreciated by nearly seven per cent against the US dollar. According to conventional wisdom, exports should

The Reserve Bank of India’s 6-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) acted on expected lines last week, but with a very hawkish tone, in maintaining status

The December figure for industrial production at 7.1 per cent, compared to November’s 8.8 per cent, signals the need to pay attention to job creation

India faces the problem of under-employment and an unsatisfactory job scenario more than unemployment as the young generation has higher aspirations compared to what is

RBI has decided to withdraw all current resolution schemes like CDR, S4A or SDR immediately and put them under the new framework. Given the speed

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has turned up the heat on banks and companies defaulting on loans by coming out with a leaner framework

Looking back at the five Budgets that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has presented so far, it would be fair to conclude that disinvestment and oil

Highlights The corporate tax is levied on the revenue of a company after taking into deductions such as depreciation and other operational expenses. The income

Wrong-headed cost-plus approaches to farmer welfare will only serve to scare agricultural prowess away. The Budget guarantees a wide range of crops a profit of

Throwing too much money too soon may run the risk of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)-like scams where the money did not reach the

The Union Budget was received with substantial enthusiasm in rural India and with an equal dismay in urban India. This is what we observed on

Reflecting a change of mind, the Centre has conveyed to a joint committee of Parliament deliberating on the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill that