The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 05, 2006

INCOME TAX
A tax-payers' guide to filing returns vide Form No.2F
In the last week of May, the Government announced that a new income-tax return form would soon come into force. On June 1, Form No.2F was notified. The following are the issues to be addressed in relation to this new return form. ... More

Can I claim the loss on returns?
My net take home income is Rs 27,800. I have no savings other than my investments in equity related mutual funds. I have lost about Rs 15,000 in trading? What would be my tax liability? Can I claim the loss in my returns? Please advice. ... More

WHEAT
What's happening to wheat?
Blog at: http://SticklishIssues.blogspot.com

INSIGHT
Is it increasingly necessary for Indians to know Chinese and the Chinese?
Story so far: During a week when the markets kept yo-yoing, I meet my neighbours for a session on investment basics. To my horror, I find that their level of financial literacy is dangerously inadequate. Episode ... More

EXCISE AND CUSTOMS
No Cenvat credit for duty on freebies
This is with reference to excise-exempted zones in North-Eastern States. In case of a company launching promotional campaigns, it may offer freebies of products purchased from the market and pay excise duty. Would Cenvat credit be available for ... More

TAXATION
States seek to tax 68 services
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated May 31 More

MANAGEMENT
60 SECONDS CHIEF!
Do what you say
She is the Vice-President of National Human Resources and Development Network, Pune Chapter. Two things that my education/ training taught me: No question is too stupid or too silly to ask. It does take courage, to ask simple ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
CAREER CROSSROADS
Job versus higher study
I am working with a leading publication house. I had done B.Com and having an experience of almost three years. I am planning to do a part-time post-graduate diploma in marketing from Symboisis. But for that I would have to quit my current job ... More

EVENTS
Just Do IT
A. Jeyachandran - Madurai - jeyatmdu at hotmail.com, A.B.Amutha - Madhura college - Madurai - amutha.b.87 at gmail.com, Annie George - Project Officer - CBS - SBI - Chennai - annie.g at sbi.co.in, Anshul Gupta - ashokgupta78 at dataone.in, Arup ... More

BOOKS
Know negligence to be secure against claims
Property losses such as burned home or damaged car are too dramatic to defy comprehension. Not so with financial impact of lawsuits, says Mark S. Dorfman in Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance, from Pearson Education ... More

Think clear to write clear
What do you do when you don't understand what you read? Curse your vocabulary and give up reading? Or vow to improve your language skills? Wait, the problem may lie elsewhere: In the writer. Clarity of thought leads to clarity of writing, and ... More