The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 27, 2008

OPINION

FINANCIAL POLICY: Stimulus for course correction
The Government has announced a fiscal stimulus package and another has been promised. Liquidity has been infused but credit flow is slow. Lack of trust and confidence has impaired financial intermediation. Demand for credit is low and supply ...

TAXATION: Is advance tax payment a lead indicator?
Around the 15th of the last month of every quarter, we see several reports speculating the performance of various companies based on the advance tax payments made by them. Very often, simplistic extrapolation of the profit is done, based ...

TAXATION: A matter of interpretation
Collaboration agreements are the order of the day. Indian companies enter into technical collaboration agreements with foreign ventures so as to bring in knowhow and expertise into India. These agreements stipulate the terms of the ...

BOOKS: Capitalism whipsawed
In 2007, when Warren Buffett took a survey of his office staff at Berkshire Hathaway he stumbled upon an alarming finding: “While he was paying 17.7 per cent payroll and income tax, the average worker in the office paid 32.9 per ...

TAXATION: Taxability of purchase for export purposes
India always had an advantage for being a low cost manufacturing centre coupled with high technical expertise. This has encouraged many foreign companies to choose India for sourcing goods for their overseas ...

EDITORIAL: Green prospects
At a time when prospects for controlling greenhouse gas emissions look bleak — with the world economy in recession mode and oil at around $36 a barrel — efforts by the National Thermal Corporation of India (NTPC) to launch green ...

TAXATION: Credibility of celebrities
Consumer activists the world over have often been incensed over the huge hype associated with celebrity advertising when the product turns out to be a damp squib with nothing to show by way of improvement over the competition. And those intent ...

LETTERS: GM crops
The editorial “GM crops and their opponents” (Business Line, December 26), demanding an explanation from the Health Minister about his views against Bt-brinjal is quite ...

LETTERS: SME units
With reference to the report that about two lakh small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across the country are in the danger of becoming sick in the next fiscal 2009-10 due to cancellation of orders from Europe, North America and South America ...

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

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