Taxing question: what does Jaitleys budget have for middle class
I have a modest income. I also run the household. And like most consumers, have been postponing buying decisions and waited for the budget. I admit the Finance Minister did come across as visionary, who incorporated flexibility and gave a feel-good factor.
Dominic Barton | The coming productivity revolution
Red warnings lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy,��� British Prime Minister David Cameron declared after the Group of Twentys (G-20) summit in November. He is right. But the real worry is not the risk associated with .
GS3: Revision- G20-BEPS, Black money, Coal scam.
Finance and operations; 100% FDI in rapid transit, highspeed, suburban and dedicated freight lines; PPP, BOT financing; 2% project cost to be given as commission if team finishes on time, says New Railminister Suresh Prabhu. Paperless. Need to reduce. Coal India given soft-glove treatment in taxation, royalty and allocation. Private players want equal treatment. Allow only Large companies because they can afford underground mining=less environment damage.
R E S E A R C H: The Manmohan Singh Chronology
You cant question that either. But were these two the prime reasons for her skyrocketing career graph? Well, not all her peers are convinced they were. As for the government sector, till the 1980s, an IAS aspirant carrying a bagful of... In 1979, knowingly or inadvertently, Singh made the breakaway Janata Partys Government (led by Charan Singhs Bharatiya Lok Dal) look worse by increasing corporate tax manifold, alleged the HT journalist in 1999, sharing tea with��.
Live: Modi wishes Obamas a safe journey, quotes DDLJ for rainy Republic Day
Around 1,800 people will attend and seats were filling up even an hour before Obama was scheduled to speak. The US President is expected to discuss the future of Indo-US ties. The crowd may also get the opportunity to ask him a few questions. 10.10 am: .
Ashutosh jumps wall to escape assault by former AAP MLAs men
���Yesterday I had gone there for a meeting and my colleague and (former) MLA Rajesh Garg was there. He was denied a ticket so he was angry, he was with his supporters. He tried to do some hungama and some commotion, nothing serious about it?
Community over class for the middle-class voter this October 15
In her upper middle class mega residential complex in Jogeshwari, cinematographer M Shanthi, 41, is in a minority: she is not yet a fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi or his party unlike thousands of her co-residents. ���Hes bombastic. Hes a marketer.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.10.10
All that can be said at this stage is that the ruling BJP will have a tough time in establishing the bona fides of the action against the Independent MLAs. Coming back to the Governor.. (My comment: The FBI probably did not question him about his links with the LeT on the basis of her tips because it was already aware of the details since he was its source). Third, in December 2007, his.. The middle class is also not using the credit card much. The banks have virtually��.
Usual Suspects: Section 377 and all that
This perception has changed over time, just as polygamy and child marriage have been outlawed for most communities, the age of consent raised progressively and the law of primogeniture scrapped.. Middle class work hard, pay taxes and they will be handed out to minorities , vote banks etc. Fiscal deficit 6.8%... And as usual the Bollywood brigade, third-rate out-of-works like Celina Jaitley jumped into the fray to showcase themselves as friends of queers.
No cut in MNREGA, social-sector spending, Arun Jaitley says
The unspent balance with the states is Rs 3,943 crore. So if in your state somebody says I have not been paid, then please ask your state government because there are unspent balances, Jaitley said while replying to a debate on the supplementary .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.03.10
THE FIRST full budget of the second UPA government raised a cheer from the middle classes and leaders of industry... It is also rarely noticed that neither Sushma Swaraj nor Arun Jaitley are from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS A QATARI CITIZEN. VIR SANGHVI. So, it looks like it is goodbye to India for M.F. Husain. His son Owais has confirmed that Husain will surrender his Indian passport��.
Make Money in India and Spend in Mexico | So Sue me
Its a model of crony capitalism that is based on natural resource extraction, large subsidies to the private corporate sector, and low wages, suppressing the incomes of not just the poor but most of the middle classes, not delivering on basic essential services like health,.. A Hindustan Times comment noted, ���Palaniappan Chidambaram had promised the nation a responsible budget and he has delivered.��� Then it. He offered a minor tax cut to middle class taxpayers.
For NDA, now comes the hard part
And economists at Nomura have estimated that a $10 decline in the global price of a barrel of crude oil helps the Indian economy on four fronts: it can push up economic growth by 0.1 percentage point, bring down consumer price inflation by 0.20.
Parliament Live: Shah linked to Sahara scam, Modi must answer, says TMC
In a raid by CBI at a Sahara office a red diary was recovered in which Amit Shahs name is mentioned directly, Bandyopadhyay told reporters, adding that his party has given notice for suspension of question hour, and wants a discussion over this.
Compulsion wont work; voter education key to participation
A legitimate question arises: Can this participation be enforced? The enforcement can take people to the electoral booths, but it cant ensure their votes. It may add to the voter turnout, but it will not enhance voters participation in the.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.07.11
After 168 years, the institution that pioneered the art of persuading the emerging class of semi-literate English people to buy newspapers has been shut down by its owners.. Having coaxed elusive words into shape for publication as well as clearing the hurdle of editorial scrutiny for the first time, i remember the sheer joy of seeing my piece - whats called a middle in journalistic parlance - in a crisp. One will have to question the saying: Whats in a name? A lot, it��.
Budget 2014-15 Income Tax Rebates ans Slab - Latest Govt.
For those who were expecting a tough, non populist budget, the surprise couldnt have been more pleasant. In one shot, finance minister Arun Jaitley raised the income tax exemption limit by Rs 50,000 for all taxpayers below��.
Falling global crude prices bolster Indias economic outlook
After a cautious first few months in office, Modi has used a new injection of political capital flowing from two state election victories for his Bharatiya Janata Party at the weekend to push forward with reforms, tinkering with stifling labour rules.
Parliament Live: Black money debate to continue, TMC MPs begin protest
says Jaitley. Speaking of new arrangement with Switzerland, Jaitley says, There will be an automatic exchange of information across the world and we want India to be a part of that mainstream. We have done more than any other government in 100 days.
Live: Senorita..bade bade desho mein Obama quotes DDLJ at Siri Fort
The speech has become a little more serious now. The US President talks about Indias achievements since its independence. In recent history India has lifted more people out of poverty than other country, and India can be at the forefront of lifting.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 05.10.10
The clock auction for 3G spectrum and broadband and wireless access earned the government Rs 1.06 lakh crore in revenue, three times the budget estimate of Rs 35,000 crore... The chief concern of the Kemalist old guard ��� that is, the military-bureaucratic establishment ��� and the secular urban middle class has long been that Prime Minister Erdogan and his party are working to replace Kemal Ataturks secular regime with an overtly Islamic one. But the AKP is��.
MediaCrooks: Blackmail Not New To Media, Arnab
Last week, the Mumbai police arrested Rishi Chopra of The Economic Times along with an accomplice (a former journalist with another business daily) in an alleged extortion attempt.. Have these practices ended? Let Arnab verify and confirm they have. In the post ���Indias Biggest Mafia��� I had written: Look deep into our media.You will find extortion, blackmail, murder, connections with anti-national elements,. But still leaning to write on a tight budget of words.
Arun Jaitleys Budget Sucks | My Sister Marilyn Monroe
Thats equivalent to a return of over 12% from an instrument whose returns are taxed like fixed deposits, the other option much favoured by risk-averse middle-class investors... On banking sector reforms, Jaitley said under Basel-III norms, government stake in all PSU banks will have to be brought down to 52% and the rest is to be used for financial inclusion.. 21 comment HindustanTimes SiDevilIam. asked PTI inquisitor, SH AJ: ���Mr esetchji, good question.
Was black money list disclosed to SIT different from the one given to SC today?
However, the question is this: if the list handed over to the SIT in June was the same as the one handed over today, what did the Supreme Court gain by demanding the list again, since the SIT is answerable not to the government, but the Supreme Court.
Delhi Polls: BJP Needs to Decide | Swarajya
And there is the other part, still in the medieval ages, still complaining about the Jizia Tax, still aggravating about centuries-past humiliations of Hindus and bothered about everything that has nothing to do with civilizational progress. I have said it.. As for what we call the middle class and upper-middle class, those who support AAP went and voted, and those who would have wanted to go and vote BJP, thought this was a too trivial a matter to disrupt weekend plans.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 31.05.11
Well-conceived cities will not only improve the quality of life for Indias citizens, they will attract investment, grow the tax base, unlock new growth markets, create a much larger, stronger middle class, boost Indias GDP and generate a.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. OUR TAKE. SEEING RED ON BLACK MONEY. Getting a handle on the size of Indias black economy is deucedly difficult. And it doesnt get easier if the government takes on the job. A joint study commissioned to��.
Open for Business: Modis Budget Promises a New India
. (good days) will be coming. It may take a while, or so said Arun Jaitley, Indias minister of finance, minister of defence and Modis long-time ally, as he presented the countrys annual budget last week.. Jaitley did not mention plans to remove.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.03.10
The real question is: How can Mr Wilders be prosecuted for agreeing with the interpretation of a world-renowned Islamic thinker and scholar ��� a scholar who has never been accused of hate speech or insulting Islam?.. retail prices and bump up economic growth by 1.5 percentage points a year. However, take heart. In Mr Mukherjee the Centre has its wisest interlocutor to get the uniform tax off the ground. ***************************************. HINDUSTAN TIMES.
Union Budget 2014: Arun Jaitley makes money for you
Thats equivalent to a return of over 12% from an instrument whose returns are taxed like fixed deposits, the other option much favoured by risk-averse middle-class investors.. While it would seem that you will have to start paying tax the moment.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley against burdening salaried.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that he does not favour burdening the salaried and middle-class with more taxes but would go after the evaders in widening the net.. budget would look at widening the tax base to maximise revenue. Jaitley, who will be presenting his first full fledged budget in February, said that in his last budget he had increased the tax exemption limit from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh and would even raise it further if he had more money.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 26.04.11
But all that was only a matter of time and now, he is back on track ��� never mind that Pakistan has not conceded an inch of ground with regard to the 26/11 investigation. Mr Singh remains undeterred. For long now, he has��.
Theres little reason to stop FDI in e-commerce
It is Indias interests to roll out the red carpet to investors, who cannot ignore a country where the middle class will expand to 700 million in the next 10 years. Mr Ma has been scouting for investment opportunities to drive Alibabas revenues.