It's a middle path for labour reforms.
Power Minister Piyush Goyal is keen to revive the energy sector.
Power Minister Piyush Goyal is keen to revive the energy sector.
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.
When criticism mounted about projects coming to a standstill last year, the Manmohan Singh government sacked one of its Cabinet ministers. The buzz was that the minister had been sitting on clearances and refusing to approve the projects.
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
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.
Instead of only government departments and state-owned undertakings, the CAG can now audit private companies, too.
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.
Senior government officials said the company would be allowed a harmonious exit.
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.
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.
The US has been widely criticised for using pressure tactics to secure information from other countries, without reciprocity.
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