OPINION
EDITORIAL
Casting a safety net
The plan to provide health, life and social security cover to 30 crore unorganised workers will have a positive impact that will only be enhanced by industry chipping in.
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RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
In defence of Alan Greenspan
Critics who link the former Fed chief, Mr Alan Greenspan’s policies and the sub-prime crisis couldn’t be more wrong, says G. RAMACHANDRAN, arguing that it was the declining economy, a fallout of the Iraq war, that turned prime borrowers i nto sub-prime casualties.
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INTERVIEW
Should we be taxed for using the environment?
Countries such as the Netherlands, Portugal, and Finland have brought in differentiations into their car registration taxes so as to encourage buyers to opt for the `cleanest' car models. Indeed, taking into account congestion, pollution, and the ...
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INCOME TAX
Streamlining the law on non-deduction of TDS
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The 20k fixation
Several laudable and well-intentioned amendments have been made to Section 40A (3) of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 over the years on a piecemeal basis. First, insistence on payment through banking channels of an amount exceeding Rs 20,000 was made ...
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Tax returns of political parties can be made public
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RETAILING
Organised retail and food price inflation Opening the ‘Black Box’
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LETTERS
Agflation
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