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The Vodafone Overreach and the Failure of Trust

From my Yahoo Piece: Vodafone’s Dutch Subsidiary bought a company in the Cayman Islands, in a transaction paid for in foreign currency. Vodafone is a ...

The Negative List: Service Tax Exemptions in a Nutshell

Archiving my Yahoo Piece: The Service Tax provisions in the budget detail out 17 areas on which you will not be charged a tax, and for absolutely everything ...

What the Finance Minister Didn’t Say

Archiving my Yahoo Piece: Pranab Mukherjee has presented a budget that has left everyone wondering what really happened and whether we should give it more ...

Building affordable housing by curbing bubbles in real estate

As part of my pre-budget articles: I wrote at Yahoo about our overenthusiasm for real estate and how we can curb bubbles in there. More than 2.6 crore houses ...

FAQ on the Startup Tax

Lots of questions have come in on the Startup tax post (Angel Investors Beware: Funding Startups Could be Classified as Income) and I’ve tried to address ...

Ramadorai, Ex-TCS-CEO, Will Advise Govt On Startup Tax

The Startup Tax situation has elicited serious response. Pluggd.in has reported that the Ex-CEO of TCS, S. Ramadorai, has been asked to advise the government ...

Quirky Budget Facts

Waste Paper Has No Customs Duty. Apparently, our streets are not dirty enough, so we are providing a complete duty exemption for importing waste paper. The Tax ...

Insurance: Pay 3% or 1.5% Service Tax Now

Till last year, service tax was chargeable on the premium you paid for Term insurance policies. Even in ULIPs the service tax was only charged on the portion ...

Insurance: Full Tax on Surrender If Premium>10% of Sum Assured [Corrected]

Missed in the glory of the Budget 2012 are key changes in Life Insurance. No 80C deduction if your Premium’s greater than 10% of the sum assured Under ...

Private Cos: Investors Must Reveal Source Of Funds

Also Read: Angel Investors Beware: Funding Startups Could be Classified as Income Yet another amendment in the budget will open a can of worms, though this one ...