Hindustan Times
What a week! Handling one important event is big enough. But the week that just passed saw four. Standing ovation to my team of excellent business journalists who diligently followed the nuances and didn’t allow even one story to get off our radar. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Budget week, business journalists, Development Council, direct tax code, disinvestment, economic symphony, environment, Financial Stability, financial substance, fiscal roadmap, goods and services tax, local bodies, Mamata Banerjee, politics, Pranab Mukherjee, Railway Budget, Unique Identification Authority, UPA government, Vijay Kelkar
The new direct tax code fails to convince me on how it would better enforce the creation, distribution and proliferation of black money. In theory the Direct Taxes Code Bill 2009, put up for public debate last week, has enough provisions — nine pages that define concepts from ’round trip financing’ to ‘arm’s length price’ — for the “prevention of abuse of the code”, including “special provisions to prevent evasion”. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged black economy, black money, cynicism, direct tax code, GDP, injustice, Ministry of Finance, tax compliance, unaccounted money
