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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Central Board of Direct Taxes pushes deadline for filing audit reports of FY24 from September 30 to October 7

ANI -
Decision was made considering the challenges taxpayers and other stakeholders faced in submitting reports electronically, says CBDT circular.

AAP made education a political issue. Competition will force others to take it seriously

Akshay Marathe -
Investing taxpayer money into government schools is the most effective transfer of wealth from rich to poor.

India’s answer to tax-evasion lies in blockchain

Susan Ostermann -
Modi govt must consider putting GST collection on blockchain, which is a technocratic solution and need not be managed by the State.

Modi govt tightening screw on IT dept a small win for taxpayer

Alok Prasanna Kumar -
In Budget 2021, the proposed changes to the Income Tax Act 1961 for tax collection are a welcome move.

Purchase of jewellery over Rs 1 lakh, Rs 20,000 hotel bills to come under I-T scanner

Remya Nair -
The move comes as the Modi government aims to widen the tax base by using data of high value transactions to look for tax evaders.

‘Too much government, too little governance’ — new book decodes India’s private republics

ThePrint Team -
Shankkar Aiyar's The Gated Republic, by Harper Collins, will be released on 20 June on SoftCover, ThePrint’s new e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.

Agri to infra, Budget 2020 takes a calculated path to revive demand, boost economic growth

Soumya Kanti Ghosh -
The underlying assumption in the Budget’s economic strategy is that the Indian economy appears to have bottomed out and is expected to pick up in 2020-21.

Lower income tax rates but no deductions — Modi govt creates optional second tax system

Remya Nair -
Taxpayers will have to forego Rs 1.5 lakh savings deduction and Rs 2 lakh interest deduction on home loans, among others, to avail new income tax rates.

Deadline for filing income tax returns extended to 31 August

PTI -
The government on Tuesday extended by a month the due date for filing IT returns for the financial year 2018-19.

45% increase in e-filing by taxpayers who earn less than Rs 10 lakh a year

Remya Nair -
The sharp increase in tax filers in the lower income slabs can be mainly attributed to government’s decision to start penalising late filers.

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Opinion

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

D.K. Singh -
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Muslims never held Akbar in high regard. Hindus made him ‘Great’

Bihar voter list revision is not anti-democratic—India can’t let illegals influence polls

Economy

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

Udit Bubna -
SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

Defence

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

National Interest

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

Shekhar Gupta -
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.

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