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Against the revenue neutral rate of 15.5%, the actual average GST rate is ~11.8%, need to either increase rates or…

Proposed amendment to the Act gets many reforms right, but key ones, like creating a skills-university, have been overlooked

Even if it is not a mega deal like the Walmart-Flipkart one, the API-Thyrocare transaction stands out in that it…

Regulation of the financial sector needs to now count climate-change as a serious risk and design the oversight framework accordingly

Making ongoing improvements to the GST compliance and tax processes based on stakeholder consultations has been the hallmark of the…

Additional spending may be just a tenth of headline number; credit guarantee will help small businesses & Covid-hit sectors

The Chinese researchers’ deletion request may or may not have been legitimate, but the need now is to preserve all…

In a sector dominated by cash, assessing household income is an onerous task

At existing levels, devolution of nearly a third of the taxes budgeted for FY22 would get pushed to March 2022,…

If India is to meet the Zero Hunger SDG meaningfully, it has to shed climate-harming agri-policies

Meanwhile, household-savings-to-GDP remains above the hisorical rate, and some spending will give the economy a lift