Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman receives the report of new direct tax code panel from its head Akhilesh Ranjan, a member of the CBDT, and other members of the panel, in New Del...
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A Kosovo Serb protester waving Serbia's national flag participates in a protest in northern part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica.
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Goran Rakic mayor of the Serb part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica adresses thousands of Serb protesters gathered. A few thousand people have rallied in the Serb-popula...
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Haryana Finance Minister Capt. Abhimamyu hosts his counterparts from Punjab, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Chandigarh to fix a uniform rate for VAT on petrol and diesel, in Ch...
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RTO officers remain the drivers’ bete noire
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Sales tax office at the Haryana-Punjab border
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Delhi's deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Puducherry Chief Minister, V Narayanasamy at the 17th GST Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley with MoS Santosh Gangwar and Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian at the 17th GST Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawa...
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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley with MoS Santosh Gangwar and Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia during the16th GST Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, in N...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewing the status of GST, which is to be implemented from July 01, in New Delhi. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is also seen.
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with MoS Santosh Gangwar at the 15th Goods and Services Tax (GST) meeting in New Delhi.
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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia addresses a press conference on the issue of lower tax rates under GST, at Delhi Secretariat in New Delhi.
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with MoS Santosh Gangwar and Reneue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia addressing a press conference on the firsrt day of the 14th Goods and Services Tax (...
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Revenue Hasmukh Adhia unveiling a plaque to inaugurate the New GST Council Office at Connaught Place, in New Delhi.
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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley chairing the Thirteen GST Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi.
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Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley chairs the 6th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting, in New Delhi.
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Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia, Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs, Najib Shah and other officials at the 5th Goods and Services...
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with Minister of State for Finance Santosh Gangwar and Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia at the meeting of the GST Council at Vigyan Bhawan, in Ne...
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launching the "DVAT MSewa mobile App for Vat registration and promoting ease of doing Business at Delhi Secretariat.
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Police use water cannon to disperse Youth Congress members during a protest against NDA Government over Agusta-Westland issue, in New Delhi.
Basic economics shows that indirect taxation distorts the economy and how direct taxation is discriminatory in nature, as many are outside the purview of direct taxes.
More than Rs 7 lakh crore worth of wealth was added as market capitalisation on the Bombay Stock Exchange, welcoming the finance minister’s announcement to reduce effective corporate income tax by almost 10 percentage points from 34.94 to 25.17.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union budget on Friday and said the NDA government had set the ball rolling for a "new India" in its first term, saying there is a lot to cheer about for the middle class.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first budget of the Modi government in its second term. Sitharaman said India needs to make structural reforms to achieve USD 5 trillion economy in the next few years. Follow live updates here
The Congress president said another idea that came up during discussions with entrepreneurs was the opening of the banking system to young business-persons and providing them access.
Dismissing the criticism of GST as ill-informed and motivated, Jaitley said the new indirect tax regime has led to lower taxes, lower inflation and reduced evasion.
The government is absolutely right that we have to deal with defaulters and over-leveraged companies by assessing the probability of recovery, or else file for bankruptcy.
Debt looms as a terrifying spectre. Zombie companies or corporate underachievers have doubled and even the biggest of business empires like Reliance Industries are worried and hassled