Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

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The sluggish legal system in India makes it extremely difficult for law-enforcing agencies in the ministry of finance to punish violations of foreign exchange laws. Unfortunately, it is not just......

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's amendments to the Finance Bill 2012-13, have ensured companies operating their businesses through countries with which India has double taxation avoidance......

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The Vodafone judgement delivered by the Supreme Court in January, 2012, has set the cat amongst the pigeons.At a macro level it has the calculated effect of implicitly legitimising tax havens,......

India braces for international tax jurisprudence

Softer a State, greater would be the unholy nexus between the law makers, the law keepers, and the law breakers - observed the Supreme Court in a strongly worded order laced with anxiety.Passing an......