The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 18, 2008

OPINION

FINANCIAL MARKETS: From Washington Consensus to India Consensus
Of the many things that history teaches us, perhaps the most important is that anyone who thinks that ideas are inter-temporally valid is bound to be proven wrong, perhaps, humiliatingly, in his own lifetime. Several examples can be given but ...

TAXATION: Another twist in the software tale
With increasing globalisation, more and more Indian companies are acquiring, inter alia, software from overseas suppliers. Typically, software supply can be by way of licence of a copy of the software with end-use restrictions, or it can be ...

TAXATION: Subsidies: Revenue or capital in nature?
The issue of taxing subsidies has been engaging the attention of courts for the past two decades. Subsidy is a grant by the government to the promoters of any enterprise in which the government desires to participate, or which is considered ...

TAXATION: Transfer pricing in business restructuring
Recently, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA) released for public comments a discussion draft on the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings. The discussion draft trails the recent widespread surge in ...

TAXATION: Assessing windfall tax
In the past few weeks there have been many suggestions for imposition of windfall tax in the background of rising crude oil prices, which reached unexpected levels. But the demand for such a tax has almost died down with the fall ...

INCOME TAX: Death without will
Indian mythology has it that a special heaven as the exclusive abode of King Trishanku was created in midair by Brahmarishi Vishwamitra when he was thrown out of the original one where benign souls are normally supposed to find sanctuary ...

EDITORIAL: Roadblocks to Japan accord
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is slated to visit Tokyo next week, by which time the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement (CECA) ought to be ready for signing. Clearly, this is what everyone interested in closer ...

LETTERS: Missed opportunity
The land for the Nano plant in Gujarat has been acquired at Rs 400 crore, representing more than 25 per cent of the project cost for the Nano, at about Rs 1,500 crore — perhaps a record of sorts. It is intriguing that the Tatas decided ...

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