The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 29, 2006

READING ROOM
Engage people with your `attitude enthusiasm, and excitement'
Workplace is too small a place for you to have enemies, write Harry Paul and Ross Reck in Revved! from Tata McGraw-Hill (www.tatamcgrawhill.com). The book is a business fable, about a manager who has to struggle and rekindle ... More

FOR THE ASKING
Tax on income from inheritance
I am a tax assessee for the past few years and have filed returns till last year. My father had lent a me few lakhs (his retirement benefits, sale of property, etc) to some family friends and the same has been returned to my account through ... More

SWATI CA
Financial illiteracy among investors?
Story so far: Moved by the plight of patients, I put to use whatever first-aid skills I'd learnt in school, and attended to the needy in a temporary shelter put up by striking medicos. Outside the pandal, though, policemen are wielding ... More

RACY CASES
Money talks, indeed
"My son, Adam, has not spoken in two months, doctor," the angry, yet concerned John declared. The leading psychologist pushed a piece of paper to the reticent teenager. "Adam, write what comes to your ... More

STICKLISH ISSUES
READERS' RESPONSE
Bring back LTCG?
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Sticklish Issues
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BILL OF HEALTH
Cancer is not a form of death
It's true that people die, however much we may not like the fact. "But there's another truth, too. People live... in the most remarkable ways," writes Lance Armstrong in his book It's not About the Bike, from Yellow Jersey Press ... More

AT YOUR SERVICE
Service tax on CAs' services
Is service tax is attracted for a practicing CA on all audits, or only on those done under the provisions of a statute?Is service tax Notification No.59/98 dated October 16, 1998 applies only to audits done under a statute, or generally to ... More