OPINION
EDITORIAL
Ambitious agenda
AS AN EXPRESSION of strategic vision for the nation, the Common Minimum Programme of the ruling alliance at the Centre can hardly be faulted. After all, there can be no two opinions on the need to step up significantly investments in agricultural ...
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CORPORATE
Indian entrepreneurship on a high
Four companies that recently made it to the billion-dollar club are focussed on a defined course of action, global in outlook, proactive in approach, and meticulous in execution. Representative of the new Indian entrepreneurship, it is their clear vi sion, self-belief, team-based decision-making structures and the ability to learn from their experiences that sets them apart, says Rishikesh Krishnan.
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POLITICS
`Law of the Unenforceable'
FROM an Italian village girl who went to Cambridge to work as an au pair to the post of Prime Ministership of the world's largest democracy is such a far cry, it can beat the story of Cinderella or Snow White. ...
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TAXATION
Let's save the punishment
T. N. Pandey on the unsustainability of prosecution when penalty has been knocked down for the same default
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The IATA hiatus
R. Srivatsan on the anomaly of taxing commission earned by freight forwarders
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Unjust enrichment by rounding off
R. Anand on an apex court decision in the realm of interest tax
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`Fee' engineering put to test
Are designs and drawings plant and machinery, asks T. C. A. Ramanujam
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Blinkers off, and veil pierced in colourable deals
EDWARD Keventer P Ltd vs Dy CIT, that came up before the Kolkata ITAT is about the power of I-T authorities to go after truth. To determine whether a transaction is sham or illusory, a device, ruse or ...
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MONETARY POLICY
Monetary Policy: Divorced from reality
The Monetary Policy has not attended to issues in the external sector that were crying for attention. Also, some assumptions made in the policy seem as if they have not taken reality into account.
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BOOKS
Babus are not accountable and netas can be ignorant
A MINISTER throws tantrums about his portfolio, another makes a shocking statement that pulls down the markets, and yet another talks as if economics did not exist. Those who voted silently are resigned to watching and ...
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