News for 'Chidambaram's Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme'

Income disclosure schemes 20 years apart yield roughly the same

Adjusted for inflation, the earlier scheme would have collected Rs 25,000 crore.

Disclose black money, shell out 40% tax

Black money worth Rs 65,250 crore disclosed under Income Declaration Scheme

While the black money declarations may go up further once all the online and manual filings of undisclosed assets filed at the end of the four-month window on September 30 are compiled, the government will get this fiscal nearly Rs 14,700 crore or half of the total taxes due.

Jaitley's gift: A 'Rs 200 crore statue' Budget!

That "Rollback Budget" ushered in an era of rollback.

Pranab, Modi, Demonetisation

'Modi had not discussed demonetization with me prior to his announcement on 8 November 2016. 'I learnt of it along with the rest of the country. 'I was not surprised when he did not discuss the issue with me prior to making the public announcement. 'It fitted in with his style of making dramatic announcements.' A fascinating excerpt from Pranab Mukherjee's The Presidential Years: 2012-2017.

Why Ajit Doval is wrong

'How do we explain that on the economic, internal security and strategic fronts, India's unstable coalitions have acted more decisively and boldly than all our full-majority governments yet?' asks Shekhar Gupta.