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April Manufacturing PMI at 54.9

HSBC-Markit’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) for April 2012 came in at 54.9, marginally higher than the 54.7 in March. PMI is a better indicator ...

Only 406K Taxpayers Earn Over 20 Lakhs: DTC Report

According to the Parliamentary Committee Report on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) headed by Yashwant Sinha, the total number of individual taxpayers (2010-11) that ...

Defining India’s Poor

I write at Yahoo on the recent poverty report: India may be a poor country but we all differ on what "poor" is. There was a furore last year when a ...

Budget 2012 Expects To Cut Petrol Subsidy 35%

Apparently, in this budget, we are going to cut the petroleum subsidy by a mind-boggling 35%. By nearly 25,000 crores (Rs. 250 billion *) From the budget ...

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 ...