GST is a landmark reform considering the sweeping changes it brings about in the indirect tax regime in India.
'The professional or the freelancer needs to pay taxes from his pocket first and then wait for payments from his clients.'
GST is the biggest revenue shake-up since independence
Officers from various departments including the finance ministry to be part of rehearsal event
Since the Union Budget, gold has become costlier by 8-9 per cent because of a 2.5 per cent increase in import duty to 12.5 per cent and about a 5 per cent depreciation in the rupee.
Top Congress sources said they would not hold up the Bill.
The Centre and states are likely to settle for this threshold.
Only three percent of Indians pay income tax; our tax-GDP ratio is among the lowest in the world. This must change. Our elites must realise that India's poverty has damaging consequences for them, and that they can help decrease it. The food security bill, with all its limitations, will hopefully contribute to generating such awareness, says Praful Bidwai.
On the eve of Winter session of Parliament, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the Congress "strongly" believed that the government should reach out to the Opposition on certain issues.
The winter session of Parliament beginning on Thursday is expected to be a stormy affair, with the opposition set to raise the 'intolerance' issue.
There was a "broad agreement" on five issues over which the 18 parties will target the government
Modi sarkar took few initiatives to uplift the poor strate of society.
The recent surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are expected to grab limelight during the month-long session. Some parties have alleged that the government is trying to politicise it.
In her four-page resignation letter addressed to the prime minister, she said, 'In view of the decision of the government of India to go ahead with the Bill on the issue of marketing of agricultural produce without addressing and removing the apprehensions of farmers and decision of my party, Shiromani Akali Dal, not to be a part of anything that goes against the interest of farmers, I find it impossible to continue to perform my duties as a minister in the union council of ministers.'
Global events will continue to be in the limelight, besides domestic policy.
Party MLAs, including Madan Lal, Jarnail Singh, were seen lunging at Mishra and dragging him as he raised a poster.
The macro-economic situation has been brought under control: Godrej.
"There will be some challenges" in the switchover to GST in the short term, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has warned.
Lack of visibility on rates makes companies apprehensive.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a three-day visit to India.
Fiscal federalism should not be sacrificed at the altar of GST.
Grains, non-mineral water might be on the list; biscuits, butter and cheese might attract GST
Despite Uber facing a ban across many states, including Karnataka and Maharashtra, for Lingaraju, a driver employed by the company in Bengaluru, it is business as usual.
The broad trends of GST collections will make you wonder if indeed the biggest indirect tax reform in the country has led to a real improvement in revenues, notes A K Bhattacharya.
A final call will be taken by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday.
The surge in export, domestic demand and public spending in infrastructure projects might revive private investment during 2017-18.
Industry experts said the major pain point would be tax collection at source, which would create a rift between sellers and e-commerce companies.
A look at the team behind the Congress' aggressive stance.
The largest challenge for the gigantic exercise between the Centre and the 29 states was to keep the latter interested over the years.
Negotiations near deadlock, as states oppose Constitution Amendment Bill.
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The India growth story is still intact, and fall in the Indian stock markets is an imported one and if the government succeeds in legislating the GST and Land Bill, India could yet emerge as a winner believe stock market experts
Good performances by most information technology (IT) companies in the September quarter and improved forecasts notwithstanding, with the exception of Infosys, stocks of IT biggies such as TCS, Wipro and HCL Technologies have fallen three to nine per cent since Infosys announced its earnings on October 11.
'I don't know how long the small-scale handmade sector can survive,' a shoemaker from Hisar tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Maharashtra has the opportunity to solve all these problems by voting for the Congress and NCP, he said.
For his first Budget in July 2014, Jaitley inherited a fiscal deficit target of 4.1 per cent of GDP. From 4.1 per cent, the fiscal deficit came down to 3.4 per cent by 2018-19, with two slippages from the budgeted targets, in 2017-18 and 2018-19, the former due to introduction of the GST, says Arup Roychoudhury.
As freebies/gift vouchers attract GST, retailers are opting for straight discounts this festive season.
Investors lost Rs 2 trillion as Sensex crashed on Tuesday.
He also pointed out that the home ministry was neither consulted, nor did it give the necessary security clearance
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