Income Tax : CBDT has notified Cost Inflation Index (CII) from 1981-82 to 2023-24. Find out the Meaning & Index of CII and its use for computin...
Finance : Understand how inflation erodes purchasing power, affects savings & investments, and discover tactics to mitigate its impact on pe...
Finance : Discover hidden impact of taxation and inflation on fixed deposits in India. Learn how to calculate real return on investment and ...
Income Tax : Understanding the impact of inflation on income taxes. Discover how hidden tax hikes can occur due to fixed tax brackets and deduc...
Finance : It kind of feels like everything is expensive these days, right? Petrol prices, fruits and vegetable prices, grocery bills, etc. I...
Finance : Consumer price inflation in India went through three phases in 2022. A rising phase up to April 2022 when it crested at 7.8 per ce...
Fema / RBI : South Asia is most vulnerable to food inflation, given the large segment of our populations battling poverty. Moreover, this is a ...
Finance : Central Government, in consultation with RBI, has fixed the inflation target for the period beginning from the date of publication...
Corporate Law : The recent period of high agricultural commodity prices is most likely over, say the OECD and FAO in their latest 10-year Outlook....
Income Tax : Vehicle owners will have to pay more towards insurance for their vehicles as the enhanced motor insurance rates has come into effe...
Fema / RBI : Sub-section (iv) of the Section 193 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 stipulates that no tax shall be deducted from any interest payable...
Custom Duty : All the Custom duty Notification including Tariff and Non Tariff issued by Custom department in respect of budget proposals/provis...
Income Tax : Central Government, having regard to seventy-five per cent of the average rise in the Consumer Price Index for the Financial Year ...
After last week’s robust performance, this week too major indices across the globe ended on a positive note. The Indian markets though, were not amongst the top gainers this week, and were infact the lowest gainers among all other markets. India’s benchmark index, the BSE-Sensex closed with gains of 0.4%. Part of the reason for this dull performance when compared to other major markets is the uncertainty surrounding interest rates and the Indian government’s anticipated policy actions with respect to curbing the menace of inflation.
According to a recent decision of the Mumbai bench of the Income Tax Apellate Tribunal, non-resident companies and individuals are entitled to a beneficial rate of tax of 10% on long-term capital gains arising from the sale of shares of listed entities. Earlier, non-resident assessees were taxed at the rate of 20%.
Smaller countries with population of less than 30 million are better placed to face the economic slowdown and benefit quicker from any recovery, indicates a ‘stress test’ conducted by the international business school IMD to supplement its annual IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2009. The stress test finding, favouring small countries, goes against generally prevalent economic […]
It’s a brand that has held its price line at Rs 4 for 25 years now — the price was last raised in 1994 by 25 paise. So, it’s not for nothing that Parle-G is the world’s largest-selling biscuit by volumes. Not that the company didn’t try to raise prices to offset the overall hike […]
In a move that could bring further relief to the home, auto and corporate borrowers, the Reserve Bank today cut short-term lending (repo) and borrowing (reverse repo) rates by 25 basis points. In its annual credit policy for 2009-10, the RBI reduced the repo rate to 4.75 per cent and reverse repo to 3.25 per […]
Pranab Mukherjee, the stand-in Prime Minister and Finance Minister of India, delivered the Interim Budget speech in the Lok Sabha on Monday 16.02.2009. Though, He did not announce any major sops for ailing industries or changes in tax structure and stuck to highlighting the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
Shri Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, has said that from a national perspective, India will remain one of the fastest growing economies in the world over 2008-09 to 2010-11. Addressing at the Hero Mindmine Summit, here today, on the theme of “Challenges of troubled times: Opportunities & Threats”, he further added that […]
The government said on Tuesday it has no proposal to ban futures trading in more commodities. Since the Abhijit Sen Committee could not establish any definite causal relationship between futures trading and rise in prices of commodities, there is no proposal to ban futures trading in more commodities, minister of state for finance P K Bansal said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
The government on Saturday relaxed the ban on export of cement in the backdrop of waning demand for this crucial construction input from the real estate sector. The ban was imposed on April 11 this year to curb the rapidly-rising inflation.
The use of monetary policy to stabilise growth has always been subject to concerns about effectiveness, often described as ‘pushing on a string.’ The central bank can lower rates and inject liquidity all it wants, but these measures will only have the desired impact if they translate into lower lending rates and larger flows of credit from the banking system.
