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OPINION
TAXATION:
Towards national neutrality
Investment abroad by US companies is substantial and because investment outflows have grown, it is not surprising that US taxation of overseas investment is a prominent issue before policymakers. First, because investment abroad is an ...
POLITICS:
Challenges before new government
Whichever coalition government comes to power at the Centre some weeks from now will be confronted with formidable challenges, particularly in relation to the economy, severely impacted by the global financial and economic crisis. There is a ...
TAXATION:
Depreciation for non-compete fee?
When a business is taken over, it involves consideration by way of a non-compete covenant entered into by the parties to the takeover arrangement. The entity whose business is taken over undertakes not to carry on any activity in relation to ...
TAXATION:
Oil companies under taxman’s scanner
The oil and gas sector plays a vital role in the economic growth of a country and more so in the case of oil importing countries like India, which imports about 70 per cent of its crude oil requirement. It is anticipated that oil and gas would ...
EDITORIAL:
Power play
The state-owned NHPC’s plans to spread its wings into neighbouring Myanmar and Bhutan besides Tajikistan in Central Asia is in part commercial and part strategic. The Bhutan project, where the projected investment is Rs 18,000 crore is a ...
TAXATION:
Capital gains exemption dilemma
Taxing capital gain transactions has always been a challenge to the Revenue and this has been accentuated by conditions which require complete satisfaction with regard to taxing or providing relief.
TAXATION:
Umbrella Settlement Commission
There are quite a few who bristle at the mention of settlement inasmuch as it has implications of amnesty for, and compromise with, crooks. In fact those who detest tax amnesty schemes detest with equal vehemence the settlement mechanism ...
LETTERS:
Misleading information
This is regarding the article on NGOs by Mr Shard Joshi, a farmer leader who, ironically of late has taken a position in favour of the WTO. Some part of his article may be true, in the case of a few NGOs, as the NGO business is now a ...
LETTERS:
GM foods
This refers to “NGOs in agriculture” (Business Line, May 6). It was saddening to read the author’s shockingly incorrect comments on crucial issues such as GM foods and farmers ...
LETTERS:
NGOs and people
It is sad to read the writings of Sharad Joshi against NGOs in the rural environment and agriculture, in particular. He seems to have forgotten the work of people who have rendered signal services in the countryside through ...
LETTERS:
Civil services
The article “Recruitment to civil services” (Business Line, May 8) has underlined the need for capability tests to determine the success of candidates in the combined civil ...
LETTERS:
Work with parties
The new president of the CII is reported to have said that the CII would focus on better economic environment, infrastructure, industrial regions and corporate governance and that it would work “with the government” for the revival ...
Columnists:
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C Gopinath
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Harish Bijoor
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G Chandrashekhar
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S Murlidharan
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Sharad Joshi
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Mohan Murti
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S Balakrishnan
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Bharat Savur
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B S Raghavan
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Ganesh Challa
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Bhanoji Rao
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Swati
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T Banusekar
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Ramanujam Sridhar
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Ranabir Ray Choudhury
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Rasheeda Bhagat
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P.V. Indiresan
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P Devarajan
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S Muralidhar
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R K Raghavan
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B Venkatesh
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S Venkitaramanan
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