The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 29, 2008

EDITORIAL
The critical policy fixes
With the sustained growth of the last five years running out of steam, it is time for crucial policy fixes, not just monetary interventions. More

TAXATION
Why the yo-yo in fiscal policy?
In the recent past one would have been flooded with information highlighting the buoyancy in the tax collections. This would then raise the question: Would removal and/or reduction in some of the taxes levied be justified? However, belying the ... More

Earn while you bide the time
It is a pity that the Gold Deposit Scheme, 1999 has not caught the fancy of the nation except that two religious shrines Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) and Mata Vaishno Devi Trust have lapped up the opportunity with alacrity. The scheme ... More

Taxability of fees for technical services
Since 1976, India has applied the source rule for taxation of royalties and fees for technical services. This however ordinarily resulted into the foreign collaborator asking the Indian importer of technical services to bear the tax on the ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Logistics: The next big growth driver
Creating an effective logistics environment requires continuous improvements and regular participation of all stakeholders who can contribute to and benefit from concrete improvements in terms of performance. Particularly is this so for farmers, whos e incomes can be raised by creating good warehouse infrastructure, say V. SHUNMUGAM and RITAMBHARA SINGH. More

INCOME TAX
Restricting the powers of the ITAT
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BOOKS
Gyrations on the openness-stability grid
With ‘openness’ on the X-axis and ‘stability’ on the Y, plot each nation’s coordinates on the graph. What you get, when you connect the dots, will be a J shape, says Ian Bremmer in The J Curve (More

BOOK PROFITS
Irrigation economics
Starting with the Taxation Enquiry Commission (1953) to the Committee on Pricing of Irrigation Water (1992) we have routinely heard discussions on improving the management of irrigation systems. However, no progress is possible unless these ... More

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