The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 06, 2008

OPINION

ECONOMY: Capital, the key to recovery
How long, how deep and how wide will the ongoing global economic crisis be, what will be its impact on the global economic order and how will it impact India and Indians? Expert opinion is that this is going to be the longest, deepest and ...

TAXATION: Advance tax versus TDS
The Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), G-Bench, Delhi, in the DCIT vs Pride Foramer SAS (2008 24(II) ITCL 259) case has decided an interesting issue concerning tax deducted at source (TDS), advance tax and charging of ...

TAXATION: Tax signals from a transponder case
Despite television becoming one of the main mediums for communication and entertainment, India is still largely dependant on foreign satellites and space technology for telecast services. It depends on transponders which are nothing ...

INTERVIEW: Top transfer pricing issues the Budget should address
With global financial markets in turmoil, even as credit lines remain frozen, the major concern for the managements is the preserving of cash flow. To maintain profits or at least stay afloat companies in sectors such as real estate, ...

BOOKS: Charity check
Accounting Standards (AS) apply in respect of commercial, industrial, or business activity of any enterprise, irrespective of whether it is profit-oriented or is established for charitable or religious purposes, states Guidance Note ...

EDITORIAL: SEBI does its bit
The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) decision to permit companies to raise capital on the basis of information filed with it as long as a year ago, against a mere three months as is the norm now, may seem somewhat radical ...

INCOME TAX: Who’ll shell out the tax?
The recent Bombay High Court’s judgment in Vodafone Essar might have vindicated the unexceptionable stand of the income-tax administration that is founded on the correct understanding of the law as laid down in Section 9(1)(i) of ...

LETTERS: Arguable credit
While I agree with the general assessment of the former Finance Minister in the article “Goodbye Mr Chidambaram” (Business Line, December 4), it is difficult to agree with the credit given by the author to Mr ...

LETTERS: Wake-up call
The editorial “Supporting agriculture” (Business Line, December 5) rightly underlined the need to step up investments in the agriculture sector to ensure adequate availability of farm products and the welfare ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrasekhar • S Muralidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranbir Ray Choudhury • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh

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