The government's plan to cut the corporation tax rate while phasing out exemptions may be sound, but it may not mean a reduced tax burden for India Inc.
"The package addresses a wide range and should hopefully give boost to the slowing economy," said Amit Mitra, secretary general, FICCI. The chamber expected the government to review the impact of these measures and fine tune policies on a continuous basis. "We further hope that these measures would be followed by a series of measures as we go along and as the situation demands."
Prices of key inputs up 44% to 74%; analysts expect earnings squeeze after a quarter or two.
India Inc's hiring activity was up 17 per cent in February with telecom and auto sectors leading the rebound, a report by leading job portal Naukri.com said.
The bulk of the incremental profits will come from oil & gas and automobile sectors.
This was even as the country's economy grew by 7.3%.
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A survey showed as much as 95 per cent of CEOs and MDs were against Sebi's mandatory guidelines the company's to declare their quarterly performance, Assocham said in a statement.
Exit polls have a way of going horribly wrong, as they did in 2004. And India Inc is hoping it stays that way this time, too. That's because industry is concerned that the fractured verdict predicted by various media channels on Thursday would mean continued uncertainty on the economic policy initiatives that need to be taken up on a war-footing.
India Inc seems to be doing a good job of protecting investors' interests following a crackdown by the market regulator earlier this year, as the number of complaints relating to non-receipt of refunds and allotment letters have nearly halved.
India Inc's hiring activity picked up by 1.3 per cent in July with improvement in recruitment in IT, real estate and retail sectors, says a survey by job portal Naukri.com.
The move to ban Rs 500 and 1000 notes may not curb the root cause of black money.
Law minister clears Sebi's regulation on put and call options.
'Increasing spends will lower project deferrals and protect project budgets'
Modern Indian women have come a long way from playing the stereotypical role of a housewife to donning the roles of CEOs in leading Indian and foreign companies.
Japan is expected to increase its investment target in India from the earlier 5 trillion yen ($34 billion) to almost 10 trillion yen.
Corporate India is joining the AIDS battle.
The Business Confidence Index formulated by NCAER stood at a seven-year low of 91.4 points in January 2009, plummeting 41 per cent compared to a year ago period. On a quarterly basis, the index lost 24 per cent compared to October 2008. 'This (BCI) is the lowest since January 2002,' the NCAER said in its quarterly review of the business expectations survey. It said the slowdown in the markets appears to be a leading factor in influencing the fall in business expectations.
If financials and oil sectors were removed, India Inc has done quite well.
The slowdown is showing on the balance-sheet. During the quarter ended March 2008, India Inc reported the lowest net profit growth in the last nine quarters, after the state-owned oil marketing and power companies declared poor results.
India Inc gave a thumbs up to the UPA-II's last Union Budget before the general elections next year and said Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented a "bold" and "growth-oriented" Budget.
Legal fees in such cases can go up to Rs 5 crore.
The rupee breached the 80-mark against the dollar on Tuesday. The steady depreciation in the value of the rupee against the US dollar is likely to prove expensive for corporate India. The listed companies' revenue expenses in foreign currency or imports exceed their export revenues or revenue earnings in forex. In their latest financial year, BSE500 companies, excluding banks and non-banking finance companies and insurance (BFSI), reported combined forex expenses of Rs 12.31 trillion against forex earnings of around Rs 10 trillion.
India Inc has projected a better performance in the next six months on the back of a booming economy.\n\n
India Inc has suffered a massive loss of over Rs 43,000 crore (Rs 430 billion), in the recently concluded financial year due to non-availability and mismanagement of power, a study says.
With political uncertainty reaching a new high, India Inc gets more anxious.
Under the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme, close to 1 million apprentices will be trained in FY24.
As India Inc steps up the gas to expand in the global arena, it faces the risk of stumbling on frauds, the levels of which were far higher compared to global levels, according to international consulting firm Ernst and Young.
Even the best of government policies rarely satisfy the corporate sector. So, it is perhaps surprising that the year 2006 saw a scheme over which all business houses -- big and small alike -- were falling head over heels.
A study after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake had rated the industry's rehabilitation efforts as "poor".
India Inc has lost all the gains of the current fiscal in its market value with a depreciation of close to Rs 2 trillion (about $50 billion) on Monday amid a fall of over 500 points in the benchmark Sensex in less than six hours of the day's trading.
The resurgence in confidence in Indian manufacturing was borne out by many examples of Indian companies going global.
'This has become a necessity now to kick start the investment cycle'
