Government
Cabinet clears setting up of GST anti-profiteering authority
17 Nov 2017
The approval by the cabinet paves the way for immediate establishment of an apex 'anti-profiteering’ body that will provide an institutional mechanism to ensure that the full benefits of input tax credits and reduced GST rates are passed on to the consumers
Govt plans digital mapping of citizens’ addresses: report
16 Nov 2017
The digital mapping of residential and professional addresses can be used to provide links to other information like property title and ownership, property tax records, information on utilities like electricity, water and gas
As Delhi chokes, almost Rs787 cr of ‘green fund’ remains unused
16 Nov 2017
While the Delhi National Capital Region continues to battle smog, a Right to Information query has revealed that the Delhi government used only Rs93 lakh out of the Rs787 crore it had collected as environment cess
Indian government IT spending to rise to $8.9 bn
15 Nov 2017
Govt looks to PSUs as revenues falter under GST
14 Nov 2017
Raids on Sasikala, Jaya TV unearth Rs1,430 cr ‘black’ money
14 Nov 2017
Income tax officials in Tamil Nadu conducting search operations on various properties of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s jailed aide V K Sasikala have detected tax evasion on income of Rs1,430 crore
GST: The pruned list
11 Nov 2017
GST Council trims items in the top 28% tax slab to 50
10 Nov 2017
The GST Council pruned the list of items attracting the top 28 per cent tax rate from 227 to just 50 even as it made eating out cheaper, fixing rate for restaurants and hotels that do not claim tax credit at a flat 5 per cent
GST rates on over 70% items in the 28% bracket to come down
09 Nov 2017
Of the over 1,200 products and services fitted into one of the four tax slabs — 5, 12, 18, and 28 per cent — only 62 are now in the 28 per cent slab while 1,138 are in the 18 per cent and below tax slabs
Demonetisation ethical, transparent exercise: Jaitley's riposte to Manmohan Singh
08 Nov 2017
Unlike the `2G spectrum scam’, the `coal block allocation scam’ or the `Commonwealth Games scam’, the NDA government’s demonetisation exercise was an ethical measure aimed at ending corruption, Jaitly said
Delhi shuts primary schools as smog envelops NCR
07 Nov 2017
India is pushing hard for a cleaner environment at the global talks on climate change while smog has forced capital Delhi to shut
Modi’s demonetisation man Hasmukh Adhia is finance secretary
07 Nov 2017
Hasmukh Adhia was associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his days as Gujarat chief minister and was key to the successful implementation of the 8 November 2016 demonetisation of high value bank notes
GST rates to fall as govt plans biggest overhaul of rate slabs
06 Nov 2017
The government is expected to offer further relief to small and medium enterprises by rationalising tax rates in sectors where the total incidence has gone up because of the GST implementation
Infosys engages more engineers to clear GSTN glitches
04 Nov 2017
While traders blame Infosys for the GSTN imperfections, the IT major blames the government’s ever evolving policies and last-minute changes in rules for the glitches
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