It was better to first build a single-rate GST with a low rate, achieve full mastery of this, and then consider more complex possibilities such as high rates and multiple rates.
India has a huge trade surplus with US - over $20 billion a year in the past five years.
NITI Aayog wants the prime minister's flagship initiative should focus on labour-intensive sectors and policies that impede their growth to get special attention.
Most people have this permanent nervousness about somebody separating them from their smartphones.
CBDT circular issued last month had raised multiple taxation concerns.
The sharp rise was also due to a statistical illusion -- low industrial numbers in November 2015, and sharp reversal of a 12-month declining trend in capital goods.
An exchange which preaches others on governance must start practising it first, says Shyamal Majumdar.
The mismatch between PMI and core sector could also be due to the fact that while core sector is calculated year-on-year, PMI is calculated month-on-month.
If a risk taker and young, NPS would suit her/him. Otherwise, s/he should go for EPF.
Pronab Sen, the government's former chief statistician, says contrary to perception, GDP growth won't be drastically hit in the present quarter.
A large number of people using cards at PoS Cards being used more frequently Small-ticket transactions Mastercard South Asia head Porush Singh calls these the three key trends for a cashless future. And post-demonetization India, he believes, is steadily moving towards it.
The economy could return to 8% growth by the end of 2017-2018, says Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman NITI Aayog.
Consensus seems a problem before the current session of Parliament ends.
'Demonetisation may have been well-intentioned, but it was a major mistake. The government should reverse it. It could at least declare that Rs 500 notes, which many poorer people frequently use, are legal again,' Basu, who till recently was World Bank vice-president, wrote in an opinion piece in The New York Times.
The study says the entire supply chain of goods and services will suffer a massive liquidity shock.
'Because of the government's step, the people are now going to splurge on consumption.' 'If you ask me, would growth be 8% for 2017-2018, I would say 7.5% because of the demonetisation move would not be very significant.'
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Significant portion of the funds used to fuel urban demand have become illegal and inoperative.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
The Niti Aayog is preparing 15-year vision document that will replace the Five-Year Plan from the next financial year
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