Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely to heed economists' suggestion that an inheritance tax be introduced in Budget 201415 as an additional revenue stream.
The ministry is likely to go by the recommendations of a committee on liberalising external commercial borrowings, headed by M S Sahoo, a former director with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
The company moved the income-tax appellate tribunal and its appeal is pending there.
FinMin plans tougher targets for bad loans, Casa and others in performance-linked pay for senior management.
Green signal from Jaitley; CVC okays Hemant Contractor for head of PFRDA
The UN climate negotiation decisions are meant to be taken by consensus and to originate from the submissions of all countries.
Finance ministry considers tax sops, regulation of hospitals to make health care affordable.
The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission had in a report last year proposed a unified regulator for the entire financial sector -- markets, insurance, commodities and pension. It had, however, proposed to keep banking out of its purview for now.
Vodafone's long-pending tax dispute with the government might be heading for a resolution, with the finance ministry considering changing the Income-Tax Act's retrospective amendment and taxing indirect transfer of assets prospectively from 2012, the year the law was clarified.
That does not change with the much-expected new US announcement, it only reiterates the imbalance.
E-auction or e-tendering moves the process of bidding for government contracts completely online, removing most manual procedures and, therefore, creating an accountability trail.
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Though the party's pre-poll promises include increasing the focus on technology, this isn't a new idea.
This will add to the woes of the conglomerate that had received a show-cause notice from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) last week for alleged over-valuation of imported machinery by Rs 2,000 crore.
Under new government, tax office to explore ways to reduce disputes.
A decision by P Chidambaram in his last days as finance minister has annoyed the revenue department.
Indirect tax collections saw only a meagre 3.5 per cent growth, as mop-up from Customs fell sharply on account of a drop in imports.
PMO's stance came as part of a reply to the whistle-blower forest officer, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, after he dragged the PMO to the Central Information Commission for denying information under the RTI Act.
Many ministries couldn't use the allocated funds since it came into force, resulting in much-needed savings.
A tax reforms panel, headed by finance minister's advisor Parthasarathi Shome, is considering moving away from setting fixed tax-collection targets and linking these with the changing economic scenario during the year.
Internal report, to be finalised in seven-10 days, may also suggest reduction in subsidies
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