Finance - general

Maharashtra, Gujarat cut VAT on petrol and diesel

10 Oct 2017

Centre drafting simpler direct tax rules to improve compliance

10 Oct 2017

GST Council eases compliance burden for small and medium businesses

07 Oct 2017

GST refunds to exporters in 2 weeks, rate relief on 27 items

07 Oct 2017

The GST Council has decided that exporters’ tax refunds, which have been pending, will be cleared over the next two weeks — those for July by 10 October, and for August by 18 October

GST Council decides to raise compensation limit to firms with Rs1 cr turnover

06 Oct 2017

GST Council decides to raise compensation limit to firms with Rs1 cr turnover

06 Oct 2017

GST Council likely to speed up tax refunds, address network woes

06 Oct 2017

Modi’s economy booster may come in GST rate cuts on 60 items

06 Oct 2017

Reports quoting finance ministry officials said the government has identified many items in the 28 per cent and 18 per cent GST brackets that would be brought down to 18 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively

India extends $4.5-bn third line of credit to Bangladesh

05 Oct 2017

India’s external debt up 3% at $485.8 bn at end-June

04 Oct 2017

RBI to issue new Rs100 notes in 2018, after Rs200 notes this year

04 Oct 2017

Govt plans to borrow Rs2 ,08,000 cr in fiscal second half

29 Sep 2017

GST revenue set to surge after initial glitches: Arun Jaitley

29 Sep 2017

GST nets Rs90,669 cr in August as over 50% of 6.82 mn assessees pay tax

27 Sep 2017

CII wants govt to extend deadline for filing GST returns

25 Sep 2017

GST return filings fall as registrations rise in August

25 Sep 2017

About 3.5 million of the 6.77 million registered tax payers have so far managed to pay tax and file return in August against the 3.6 million out of the 4.56 million eligible taxpayers who paid GST in July

Centre extends interest subsidy on MIG home loans till March 2019

23 Sep 2017

Taxpayers told to confirm identities of search authorities

23 Sep 2017

Govt to ensure timely refund of GST dues to exporters

23 Sep 2017

RBI eases foreign investment rules for corporate debt

23 Sep 2017

Taxpayers claim Rs65,000-cr of Rs95,000-cr GST paid as input tax credit

16 Sep 2017

The Central Board of Excise and Customs has now asked tax officials to verify GST transitional credit claims of over Rs1 crore made by 162 entities

PFRDA proposes to bring all pension schemes under NPS

16 Sep 2017

Bitcoin down for a fifth day as China cracks down on cryptocurrencies

15 Sep 2017

British MPs accuse Amazon, eBay of abetting online tax fraud

14 Sep 2017

According to HM Revenue and Customs’ estimates, taxpayers must have lost £1.5 billion from overseas sellers illegally selling goods into the UK without paying VAT