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Long-term Measure Or A One-time Move Against Black Money?

Happy Pant

  • 10 November 2016
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The decision to ban the existing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes as legal tender in one stroke is a bold measure taken by the government. While estimating the scale of black economy in the country...

BRICS Goa: Can the summit drive discourse on international taxation and lead black money chase?

Sakshi Rai

  • 14 October 2016
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Marking the beginning of new geopolitics in 2006, BRICS has managed to maintain its relevance on global matters. The BRICS coalition represents about 40 percent of the world’s population and 17...

GST law should ensure benefits of lower prices are passed on to common people

Malini Chakravarty

  • 23 August 2016
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Many have heralded the introduction of the GST as the single most important reform that has been initiated in the arena of indirect tax system in India. The main objective of GST is to simplify the...

Comprehensive, but not Complete

Manzoor Ali

  • 8 August 2016
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For a vast developing country like India with layers of governing institutions, a policy framework on water has been long due. Although, India has a National Water Policy since 1987, the current...

Is India close to passing a law to identify true ownership of corporates

Neeti Biyani

  • 27 July 2016
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While Pascal Saint-Amans, head of tax at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has once again emphasised the need for beneficial ownership and corporate transparency,...

Budgetary hurdles and gender equity

Kanika Kaul

  • 16 June 2016
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Omission of women's schemes from 'Core of the Core' category of highest priority schemes is a concern. The draft National Policy for Women brought out by the Union Ministry of Women and Child...

Chasing black money: Need for universal information framework to track illicit fund flows

Suraj Prasad Jaiswal

  • 15 June 2016
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There is much anger among the people with regard to black money, also known as Illicit Fund Flows (IFFs). The revelations of Panama Papers, based on the leaked information about the business of...

The Panama documents are not the tip of the iceberg, they are a mere speck; here's why

Neeti Biyani

  • 12 April 2016
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The deepening scandal initiated by a massive leak of financial documents from a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca and Co. has once again highlighted the glaring loopholes in the global financial...

Budget 2016: At the Time of Deepening Distress, Govt's Rural Push may not be Adequate

Nilachala Acharya

  • 4 March 2016
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The preliminary reactions of many people after the Budget presentation gave the impression that farm sector got a boost in terms of a significant increase in budget outlays for the sector. But a...

Rail Budget 2016: Prabhu Signals Shifting Focus to Customers, Staff

Payal Dey

  • 26 February 2016
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Preparation of budgets is traditionally an incremental process: the first railway budget of the present government took off from the landscape sketched in the 12th Five Year Plan. Expansion,...

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