Treats gains on sale of as capital gains, not business income, spares him from huge tax liability.
GAAR will not override the recently revised double taxation avoidance agreements with Mauritius and Singapore.
Its officers would wear black bands on Monday, which is also Martyrs day, the IRS Association (Customs and Central Excise) has said.
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.
Sale of antibiotics is under the scanner. Government to go tough on misuse of these drugs.
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.
First case filed after new norms come into force, NCLT admits plea.
CBDT circular issued last month had raised multiple taxation concerns.
Delhi-based Nilesh Sharma, among the first IPs, said while the framework is in the initial stage and might have teething trouble, the opportunity is immense in the long run.
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.
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.
Increase of 10% to 12% likely in a bid to improve citizens' mood after demonetisation.
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.
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