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Saturday, June 06, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, June 06, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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OPINION TAXATION: Connectivity: Taxing debate The issue of taxability of connectivity charges and consequent withholding tax implications on the same has assumed interest in the recent past in the light of various conflicting judicial precedents on the same. The primary controversy is ... ECONOMICS: Revisiting Keynes’ animal spirits John Maynard Keynes once likened investing in stocks to a newspaper competition in which readers had to select six of the prettiest faces from a hundred photographs. The winner was the one whose choice of six corresponded most closely to the ... TAXATION: Bring back ‘capital’ gains levy One dispensation that has not gone down with the chattaretti and intelligentsia alike is the immunity from long-term capital gains tax earned from the bourses in India. The exemption from tax to moneybags and tycoons does cause resentment . It is ... INCOME TAX: I-T provisions that need mending The new Finance Minister, Mr Pranab, Mukherjee, needs to be complimented for taking up the Budget-making exercise in right earnest. In this context, some suggestions on the income-tax front may be ... EDITORIAL: Cut that fits For a country with a population of over 112 crores and logging a GDP growth rate of 6-7 per cent a year, India is clearly under-clothed, apart from being under-fed and under-housed. Rising incomes and demographic pressure combine to make ... TAXATION: Avoiding additional DDT Dividends may be exempt from tax in the hands of shareholders, but companies have to shell out tax on such distribution of dividends at 15 per cent. Is there any way by which this can be avoided? Private companies are often controlled by ... INCOME TAX: A drag on filing returns The recent CBDT circular on TDS compliance is wishy-washy. Taxpayers have been demanding simplification of compliance procedure and relief from penal provisions. On the contrary, the tax administrators have been making the procedure complicated ... LETTERS: Tax at source The Budget 2009-10 is proposed to be presented in July 2009. The expectations are high from all segments as the new government is expected to have stability and support from parties without any reservations and ...
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Think long-term 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 • S Venkitaramanan Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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