The Foreign Investment Promotion Board has forwarded complaints against duty-free operator Alpha Airports group to the home ministry and the Directorate General of Export Promotion.
On the other hand, outsourcing companies can expect an exponential increase in the outsourcing business as fresh loan processing norms are tightened in the US.
As a prelude to a new partnership agreement, senior Vodafone and Essar executives have held joint meetings with officials in the government, including the finance ministry.
More than one oil company bidding for same overseas assets.
Oil India, the government-owned upstream company, has lined up over $2 billion in the next five years to extend its oil and gas assets overseas
The inflation bogey that stalked the government earlier in the week appears to have lost force, with the wholesale price index declining to 6.05 per cent for the week ended February 17, 2007, against 6.63 per cent for the previous week.
For starters, the application to the commission will have to be made together with the payment of the tax liability. The application can be made only before the assessment officer has completed proceedings, and not after.
The threat of being priced out of the market by state-owned oil marketing companies has forced the private sector players to also opt for price cuts of auto fuels.
Reliance Industries, which has discovered gas reserves of nearly 14 trillion cubic feet in the Krishna-Godavari basin off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, is building a gas-receiving jetty in Kakinada.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, the state-owned company, could find itself becoming a major player in the oil and gas sector both within the country and overseas with huge capital being pumped in by the L N Mittal-promoted Mittal Investments.
The country's fiscal deficit, as a percentage of GDP, would be wiped out if the crude oil price, as measured with the Indian basket, touch $80 per barrel.
The govt is mulling the need to exercise its rights under the gas production-sharing contracts.
New recast plan calls for more loan rate cuts and lower equity returns.
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath is pushing for a major policy change, one that would result in foreign travellers to India being refunded the value-added tax they pay on purchases made here.
Budget 2007 is expected to introduce major changes in non-resident taxation, partly aimed at making it easier for foreign companies to do business in India and encouraging greater investment inflows.
After awarding oil and gas blocks under NELP-VI, the government is now turning its focus to the seventh round of the New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP-VII).
The finance ministry is likely to raise the exemption limit for service tax from Rs 400,000 to Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) in the forthcoming Budget.
3-tier spectrum allocation policy to curb inefficient use.
Even as Left parties have demanded a review of the tax concessions provided to SEZs, the DoT has sought extension of excise duty exemptions to industrial units set up in telecom-specific SEZs.
Domestic oil companies have been invited by countries like Yemen, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to pick up stake in existing refineries and also set up greenfield units.
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