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Topic: GST

Talk Point: Industry representatives, consumer body members should have a say in NAPA affairs

The establishment of the National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAPA) can go a long way in ensuring that benefits of the GST are passed on to the consumers. However, the NAPA should not be used to harass traders.

Talk Point: GST anti-profiteering body may increase corruption, red tape

The anti-profiteering body does have a good chance of becoming another bureaucratic layer which needs to be bribed to keep your restaurant/business running

Talk Point: Anti-profiteering body of GST could allow bureaucracy to unleash a tax raj

Under GST, the government is setting up a National Anti-Profiteering Authority to ensure businesses do not cheat consumers. The new authority will ensure the benefit of reduced prices under the new indirect tax regime is passed on to consumers, said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Gujarat’s ceramic city likes Modi, but hates his economic policies

Note ban and GST have dampened Morbi’s ceramic business, while the Patel quota agitation has got the community to rally against BJP.

‘The road to Lok Sabha polls in 2019 will be paved with sops’

All the actions by the government in the past month suggest that the government is trying to please all segments of the economy.

GST rate cut shows reformist intent of Modi govt

GST rate cuts will help formalisation and boost business. Relaxation of return filing procedures should help smaller firms embrace the tax reform.

Simplifying GST rates

When the idea of a GST was introduced, no one had intended (or dreamt) that there would be four rates of tax other than the zero rate.

It’s an illusion that Modi govt controls India’s economic destiny

A heady era has lulled investors into believing that India’s omnipotent PM determines India’s economic destiny. But things might be about to change. 

Talk Point: To his credit, Modi accelerated the growth of the 1990s

Other economists may call it the ‘Gujarat model’, but keeping industrial growth high and improving agriculture are keeping the state’s development high.

Big test for BJP as Himachal goes to polls today

50 lakh electorate to cast votes to choose between six-time CM Virbhadra Singh of Congress and septuagenarian BJP leader, Prem Kumar Dhumal.

On Camera

Epstein files and what they mean for the American anger against elites

Of all academic institutions, it is at Harvard, the richest and perhaps the most powerful academic institution in the world, that Epstein’s ties appear to have flourished most.

To meet fund crunch, Karnataka to auction plots in Bengaluru, raise Rs 4,000 crore

Siddaramaiah govt’s five schemes strain finances as GST changes hit revenues; debt to jump nearly Rs 80,000 crore. State also plans to auction liquor licences & extend bar timings.

Not just BSF, MHA working on rules to reserve 50% of all CAPF constable posts for Agniveers

The MHA is deliberating on new recruitment rules for all CAPFs, including the CRPF, ITBP, and SSB. It wants to incorporate a 50% quota for Agniveers across the CAPFs.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.