News for 'value-added'

Budget session may keep bourses edgy

CSD canteens may come under VAT!

VAT may add 25% to state revenues

Why CAS failed and VAT will succeed

FM initiates process for VAT launch

Tea to be costlier after GST

A minimum levy of 12 per cent GST on tea will increase the cost, which will ultimately be passed on to consumers.

Microsoft keen to get bigger pie in payments bank segment

Last year, the software giant launched a cloud adoption programme for SMBs.

Want to eat this on your movie date? Click here!

Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.

VAT on drugs to be fine tuned

Kalam's 8-point plan to create 56 mn jobs

President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday mooted eight schemes to generate 56 million direct jobs in the next five years.

Sales tax to be phased out by 07

The government on Wednesday said it would phase out Central Sales Tax by April 2007, a move that may lead Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states to reconsider their decision of not implementing value-added tax.

Uniform VAT rates sought

VAT chain gaps worry firms

Gold: Delhi, Maharashtra may lower VAT

Delhi and Maharashtra may lower value added tax on bullion to 0.25 per cent as consensus on introducing uniform floor rate for precious metals seemed difficult to emerge at the empowered committee's meeting on Wednesday

Can VSNL become a global player?

Plan panel finds VAT 'faulty'

Coinciding with the 3-day traders stir against the implementation of value added tax, the Mid-term Appraisal of the 10th plan has pointed to "serious design flaws" in the tax even as Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh

Rains, VAT wash away rakhi sales

VAT earnings up in Q1: Chidambaram

The Value Added Tax system has no adverse impact on consumer prices, and revenue earnings under the new regime have shot up by 15.3 per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesda

Accounting norms for VAT

How VAT can be a success

Duty cuts on oil imports hits customs revenue

Surging global crude oil prices failed to shore up customs revenue substantially as India Inc resorted to advance licence scheme, which allows duty-free imports for value-added exports.

AP swallows VAT pill, MP refuses

Intelenet to foray into consulting

Household items get 4% VAT

VAT regime from Apr 1 despite BJP shock

VAT and the problems it poses

'GDP growth will be 6% in Q4'

'I expect fourth quarter GDP growth to be sharply down.' 'I would imagine it would shave off at least one percentage point, if not more, as compared to the third quarter.'

Non-voice trumps in mobile market

Car sales hit VAT bump

VAT not to be deferred

The empowered committee of state finance ministers on Monday said the Value-added Tax will be implemented from April 1, 2005, even if Uttar Pradesh does not fall in line.

Airtel becomes world's third largest mobile operator

Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel has become the world's third largest mobile operator with 303 million subscribers.

50 items to attract 4% VAT

The panel on value added tax has decided that items which have at least 50 per cent industrial use will attract 4 per cent tax rate for that particular use.

VAT to cover Army canteens, welfare bodies

Indian airlines may lower cancellation charges

At a meeting with airline chief executive officers and top officials here, the Civil Aviation Ministry also decided to amend Aircraft Act and Rules to safeguard the interests of aircraft leasing companies, many of which have started imposing stringent conditions for leasing planes to Indian carriers in the aftermath of Kingfisher Airlines shutting down.

Music firms pin hopes on ring tone licensing

VAT will lower prices

Implementation of value-added tax will bring down retail prices and may add Rs 75,000 crore (Rs 750 billion) per annum to government revenue, according to industry body Assocham.

VAT panel to meet soon

PM asks Jaitley to fast-track GST implementation

The state has extended its full support, provided its revenues are protected.

VAT: Rs 500 cr drug stocks pile up

Loss due to VAT? Rs 2,000 cr for Maha

Maharashtra is likely to incur a revenue loss of Rs 1,500-2,000 crore (Rs 15-20 billion) in the current fiscal due to implementation of value added tax.