The finance ministry is preparing a set of measures to reduce the current account deficit (CAD), which reached the highest-ever…
GST may be going nowhere, but the ministers are definitely going places. State finance ministers and officials kick off their…
The finance ministry is likely to defer service tax on railway AC passengers and freight by two months after the…
Puncturing holes in the arguments of UPA-II government that coalition compulsions, disruptive opposition and global financial crisis have hampered India?s…
The armed forces might cease to be the exclusive domain of central and state home ministries.
Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma has written to the chief ministers of three opposition-ruled states Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and…
With finance minister Pranab Mukherjee set to enter Rashtrapati Bhavan and some states sticking to their stand on the Goods…
Confiscation of benami properties, jail terms for offenders and a separate appellate agency to deal exclusively with benami transactions may…
In a rare instance of owning up, the Central Board of Excise and Customs has conceded that frivolous litigation, indiscriminate…
The net direct tax collection rose by a whopping 172% to R35,323 crore during April-May this year, compared to the…
The government is set to make it mandatory for coal mining companies to earmark an amount equivalent to the royalty…
Mauritius, the tax haven which continues to enjoy a special double taxation avoidance tax treaty with India, has been the…
The parliamentary standing committee on finance will meet various stakeholders next month to get their final view on the Goods…
Using the Railways to transport goods would become more expensive from July 1, with the government bringing the sector under…
In the city of Dibrugarh of Assam, it rains eight months a year. So any construction activity, especially on the…
Even though European nations like Spain, Italy and Ireland are facing debt crisis, Standard and Poor?s has said that their…
The expenditure department of the finance ministry has objected to a plan to set up special purpose vehicles to run…
The primary concern of foreign institutional investors that they might be taxed for business income in India under the proposed…
