The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 21, 2005

Fast-track EDI implementation
ONE OF THE strategies highlighted in the supplement to the Foreign Trade Policy 2004-09 to double India's share of global merchandise trade by 2009 is to simplify procedures and cut transaction costs. A key element of this effort is the ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Three-G thinking for 3G
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has rejected the idea of imposing an entry fee on companies providing 3G services. A fixed fee based on the scarce-resource model of radio spectrum would have eroded the number of 3G service providers. It wou ld have sapped the vitality and the viability of those that could afford to pay the fee. TRAI deserves to be complimented for suggesting the revenue-sharing model, which is what the country needs, say G. Ramachandran and R. Vijay Shankar. More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Mosaic of life
FRIDAY MORNING'S papers carried two news items which, at least to this correspondent, were great disappointments because what they indicated, at least at the superficial level, was that there are times when what appears to be unjust triumphs. ... More

TAXATION

Treading on treaty ground
T. N. Pandey discusses the CAG's recent report on DTAAs More

Fairness on the foreign front
T. C. A. Ramanujam on changes to non-resident taxation More

A debate on rebate
Mohan R. Lavi on the advantage of relying on exemptions rather than on rebates More

A new tax to cling onto CO₂ that's emitted
ON MAY 19, Dr Michael Cullen, New Zealand's Minister of Finance, presented the Budget. But what had stolen the limelight in the first week of this month was the announcement of carbon tax by Cullen's colleague Pete Hodgson, the minister ... More

What's spooky about keyman
S. Murlidharan on the issues surrounding keyman insurance More

BOOKS

Next to impossible to legislate culture of integrity and trust
IT HAS become so fashionable to talk about corporate governance that we tend to switch off whenever somebody launches on to this topic. Yet, a CA couple Kshama and Kaushik Dutta have put together a readable presentation in Corporate ... More

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