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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicTax collections

Topic: Tax collections

Modi govt disinvesting in PSUs crucial but here’s why privatisation is easier said than done

Modi government's disinvestment decision is already facing stiff opposition from employees of BPCL, Container Corporation of India, and even the Swadeshi lobby.

Income Tax dept to seek Rs 1 trillion cut in tax collection targets

The government set a tax collection target of Rs 13.8 lakh crore during the interim budget in February, which was revised to Rs 13.35 lakh crore when budget was presented in July.

Siddhartha ‘suicide’: Economic slowdown & tax terror creating dread among Indian businesses?

Cafe Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha’s body was found Wednesday near Mangaluru, 30 hours after he went missing Monday evening.

Modi govt overestimated nominal GDP, tax buoyancy. Result — huge tax collection shortfall

India’s tax shortfall for fiscal 2019 is estimated at Rs 1.5 lakh crore, despite the absence of any macroeconomic shocks.

Modi govt unlikely to meet fiscal deficit target as tax collections fall short

Direct tax collections are estimated at around Rs 11.25 lakh crore against a target of Rs 12 lakh crore.

Modi govt set to fall short of 2018-19 direct tax target of Rs 12 lakh crore by a distance

Modi government has transferred several tax officials due to poor performance, says a senior finance ministry official.

Tax collection in Jammu and Kashmir up 19.3% despite political turbulence

Direct tax collection in Jammu and Kashmir stood at Rs 1,302.60 crore in financial year 2018, up from Rs 1,091 crore from a year ago.

Indian tax revenues fail to meet targets five months in a row, raise doubts on borrowing plan

Traders say the gap between the target and actual collection may undermine the government’s plan to cut its borrowing for the year by 700 billion Rs.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

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.