What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister......
Lok Sabha TV Rajya Sabha TV The Lok Sabha will take up Goods and Services Tax Bill for discussion and passage on Wednesday. According to reports, eight hours have been......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked his Council of Ministers to make extra efforts for effective implementation of public welfare schemes at the ground level and work on new ideas in......
Passage of the long-pending Goods and Services Tax bill and a unanimous resolution on Kashmir were the highlights of the "highly productive" Monsoon session of Parliament which was adjourned sine......
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday gave assent to Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax, a major step towards rolling out the new indirect tax regime which the Modi government......
The commerce ministry is proposing a host of direct and indirect incentives such as deferral of import duties and exemption from export taxes to revamp Special Economic Zones through a new......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday announced at a meeting of state finance ministers that an entirely new service tax Bill would be drafted in the course of this fiscal.According to sources......
Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections jumped to over Rs 1.31 lakh crore in November, the second highest since its implementation in July 2017, in line with the trend in economic recovery, the......
The Centre is unlikely to offer new direct tax incentives for units operating in special economic zones (SEZs) and may instead allow the grandfathering of previous exemptions that such units were......
GST collections grew by 11 per cent to over Rs 1.59 lakh crore in August on the back of improved compliance and reduced evasion, with experts forecasting higher mop-up to continue in the upcoming......