The current debate misses out on one important dimension that taxation of goods and services is inextricably linked with taxation…
Gross National Happiness index supplements the concept of GDP with a more holistic measure of development
One of the most important thinkers, in recent times, to write about the problems of inequalities in modern societies is…
The tax collection data reveal that all the taxpayers taken together report incomes which are equal to only about 17-18%…
In human affairs, wrote Edmund Burke centuries ago, the lines demarcating right from wrong and good from evil are not…
It presents a good opportunity to carry out fundamental reforms in the banking industry
At all levels, most of us exercise the soft option of doing what is popular rather than what is right
Real reform will set in only when officers, at all levels, stop regarding taxpayers as potential tax evaders and see…
The 7th pay commission recommendations should not become an exercise of granting a bonanza to central govt employees at the…
Our complex rules, the corruption we face, as well as the adversarial relationships between the citizens and the bureaucracy that…
India is one of the few countries where the Laffer principle has proved to have worked in modern times
We should think of simpler solutions to tackle the menace of black money in the real estate sector, such as…
It is important for tax administration to know why people pay taxes and why they do not
Even with judicial constraints, the power to legislate retrospectively on tax matters is almost draconian in nature
The decision of the Authority for Advance Rulings in the Castleton Investments case was erroneous on at least four counts
