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TopicConsumption tax

Topic: consumption tax

Japan PM Fumio Kishida ‘to sack deputy finance minister’ over delinquency on tax payments

Report of Kenji Kanda’s firing comes in the backdrop of poll by broadcaster FNN which shows approval rating for Kishida’s cabinet reaching a record low of 27.8%, 7.8 points below last month.

SubscriberWrites: GST: A panacea

It would ideal that we have only one tax law for the entire country—One Nation, One Tax. It should be such that it calculates the tax due and recovers it too.

Tax evasion threatens India’s budget goals amid economic slowdown

Poorer tax compliance is adding to the govt's revenue collection woes as consumption, which contributes almost 60% of India’s GDP, takes a knock.

India’s falling rupee has a silver lining – Rising software exports

Services exports, which mainly comprise software, has climbed to 7.3% of GDP in June from 6.8% in March 2017.

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.