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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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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.