Full exemption for all health insurance premiums and reinsurance or a reduction in the GST rate from 18% to 5% on health insurance services is likely. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com ......
The climate for 'doing business' remains forbidding, taxtortion is still rife, corruption at state and district levels has increased, oil prices remain extortive with high taxation, and the......
Are we so ready to believe that in this country whose virtues we constantly shout from the rooftops, there is no single person -- other than Modi -- in a minimum of 272 elected MPs with the talent......
United States President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump secured their parties' presidential nominations with impressive wins in another round of key primaries, setting the stage for a......
Ahead of her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi excise policy scam case, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha on Thursday said she has done nothing wrong and alleged that......
Credit-focused SIFs with lower minimum investment thresholds can provide a more practical option for investors with higher risk appetite, suggests Subodh Rai. Illustration: Dominic......
The Finance Ministry is unlikely to tinker with the 10 per cent Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT), the amount companies getting tax exemptions pay on their book profits, despite the industry chambers'......
To reassure foreign investors on tax policies, top government functionaries on Wednesday held meetings with foreign institutional investors, but refused to relent on Rs 40,000 crore (Rs 400......
There are reports that the government will soon cut income taxes by about Rs 50,000 crore to boost consumption.Prime Minister Modi, I suggest that, instead, you distribute about one lakh crore......
Post the change in debt fund taxation in March, a lesser-known hybrid fund has emerged as one of the alternatives for fixed-income investors. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Equity savings......