Move to address MNCs' taxation woes; UK likely to be the next.
All these measures will revitalise the manufacturing sector, which has been in doldrums.
Rules applicable from April 1, 2014; investors who have already redeemed will also have to pay tax
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely to heed economists' suggestion that an inheritance tax be introduced in Budget 201415 as an additional revenue stream.
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 company will use the proceeds to part-repay its debt, which stands at Rs 34,000 crore (Rs 340 billion) even after the recent qualified institutional placement of its shares. An RCom board committee recently approved the sale of these assets.
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
Unlike Reliance Jio's focus on 4G, it plans to segment the data market based on device prices and spectrum.
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.
FDI in the defence sector during 2000-2014 has been a meagre $4.94 billion, despite the total FDI flow into the country across sectors standing at $321.81 billion.
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.
The market could see a fresh round of tariff war, similar to what happened in the voice market a few years ago.
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.
Top companies added employees at 3% CAGR from 2003-04 to 2013-14, while revenues grew at 18%.
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.
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