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BRICS Goa: Can the summit drive discourse on international taxation and lead black money chase?
Sakshi Rai
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
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...
Is India close to passing a law to identify true ownership of corporates
Neeti Biyani
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
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
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
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
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...
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Happy Pant
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Rail Budget 2016: Prabhu Signals Shifting Focus to Customers, Staff
Payal Dey
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,...
Budget 2016: Will Changed Centre-State Resource Sharing Impact Fund Usage for Development Schemes?
Happy Pant
Most states are left with unspent balances in development schemes of different departments, which in turns impairs achievement of objectives of these schemes. Though, the extent and quality of fund...
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