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Topic: taxation

Foreign missions get a reminder from MEA, ‘commercial activities’ not exempt from tax

Subsequent to MEA’s annual reminder to all foreign missions, Italian Embassy’s cultural centre suspended some of its operations.

Finance Minister Sitharaman promises to boost GCC growth by easing taxation rules, govt support

Speaking at Global Capability Centers Summit in Delhi, the minister highlighted the sector could grow up to $200 billion by 2030 in India.

Rich Indians can’t complain about taxes—move abroad all you want, but you must give back

Shortly after reports of Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma’s decision to settle in London, a start-up founder’s viral social media post suggested that high-salaried individuals leave the country.

India’s fiscal imbalance isn’t a North vs South problem. Here’s what lies at the ‘centre’ of it

India has a large vertical fiscal gap, which has been increasing. The reason is that while the Constitution assigns the most buoyant taxation powers to the Union, it allocates more spending responsibilities to the states.

Surjit Bhalla says India’s tax-to-GDP ratio ‘high for a developing country’, sparks debate at seminar

Former PM-EAC member Bhalla and ex-CBDT member Arbind Modi exchanged views on India's taxation efficiency, impact of tax cuts and growth potential at CSEP seminar.

How low revenues & high evasion forced Congress to abandon its first tryst with inheritance tax

While Congress has distanced itself from its overseas wing chief Sam Pitroda's apparent support for inheritance tax, BJP, including PM Modi, has launch scathing attacks over the issue.

‘Chalo Delhi’ — Karnataka joins Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana to protest Centre’s tax devolution

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said MLAs & MPs will protest in Delhi tomorrow against the allegedly reduced tax devolution & grants Centre was transferring to states, including to Karnataka.

Owaisi just challenged Modi to scrap Hindu Undivided Family. What it is & how it helps save on taxes

Responding to PM Modi’s comments on Uniform Civil Code, Owaisi said HUFs provide tax relief to Hindus. But it has significant downsides, such as being prone to family squabbles.

Modi govt turning into Big Brother. Overly-protective TCS policies infantilising citizens

Prime Minister Modi talked about ‘minimum government’, but nobody thought he meant making the citizenry do the government’s job.

How Sitharaman has done a big favour to MSMEs. It was long due

Hundreds of thousands of MSMEs across the country are suddenly going to see their payments coming in faster and at least before 31 March.

On Camera

In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy

With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.