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ECONOMY: Will Manmohan acknowledge the Modi model?
Tomorrow the Prime Minister will inaugurate the World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit. Lots of businessmen from all over the world will be present. They will listen attentively to him because they will be looking for ways to make ...

INTERVIEW: Taxman reaches for the sky
Men judge by the complexion of the sky the state and inclination of the day, reads a line in the Bard’s King Richard II. And in As You Like It, he offers another nugget of wisdom — that ‘men are ...

TAXATION: Voluntary taxation of wealth
Some rich Germans have petitioned the newly re-elected government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to resume the levy of wealth tax to help Germany bounce back from the economic crisis. The text, posted on ...

INCOME TAX: Decoding branch profits
Several provisions in the Direct Taxes Code are left without explanation about the origin and purpose for introducing the same. There is a Discussion Paper explaining several provisions, but it remains silent on some important ...

BOOKS: Fiscal centralisation
Should fiscal control be centralised or decentralised? There are arguments on both sides. For instance, as Brendan O’ Duffy writes in one of the essays included in Comparative Politics, edited by Judith Bara and Mark ...

TAXATION: Vacuum in FBT regime
The Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009 has given the quietus to the rather short-lived Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) regime that shifted the tax liability on a whole lot of benefits enjoyed by employees onto their employers in a bid to break the logjam ...

EDITORIAL: Divesting for development
Governments, even when they do good things, have to protect themselves from attack on various flanks. So, often, they adopt the old maxim that a dog with a bone in its mouth does not bark. The decision to force profit-making public ...

LETTERS: Balanced discourse
The article “Zero tolerance for GM foods in Europe” (Business Line, November 2) points out that while the rest of the world is united in rejecting genetically modified foods, India is allowing Bt brinjal into ...

LETTERS: Catamaran Fund
This is the first time that a person who has come up the hard way and founded a world class company is now coming forward to help aspiring young men and women set up businesses by creating a venture capital fund. Many aspiring youngsters ...


Columnists: C Gopinath Harish Bijoor G Chandrashekhar S Murlidharan Sharad Joshi Mohan Murti S Balakrishnan Bharat Savur B S Raghavan Ganesh Challa Bhanoji Rao Swati T Banusekar Ramanujam Sridhar Ranabir Ray Choudhury Rasheeda Bhagat P.V. Indiresan P Devarajan S Muralidhar R K Raghavan B Venkatesh S Venkitaramanan




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