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ECONOMY
We are a bullock-cart economy, so what?
Story so far: After enduring a meeting that discussed pre-Budget expectations, I visit Veena, my batch-mate in college, and now a housewife. "What do you expect from the Budget?" I ask her. Rather than complain about prices and taxes, ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Tax holiday and the IT sector
The sunset of the tax holiday under Section 10A, apart from impacting the business of the STP units, might have larger economic consequences. More

TAXATION
Service tax reforms needed
It appears that the Government intends to tax an event or an idea, the time of which has not yet arrived. One can tax an IPR but not a service which has not happened or has not been provided or is a contingent service. In the coming Budget, hopefully these issues would be addressed. More

DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Panel to study derivatives trading
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated February 19 More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
Centre to examine single portal for e-procurement of materials
Blog at: http://SticklishIssues.blogspot.com

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EVENTS
Number Crunch
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Just Do IT
A.Meega Prem Anand - Vriddhachalam - meegaanand at yahoo.com, A.Ramalingam - vallalar18 at yahoo.co.in, A.Satyanarayana Babu - Chennai - andali1968 at yahoo.co.in, Aditya Jain - Malwa Industries Limited - Ludhiana - adityajain at malwagroup.com, ... More

INCOME TAX
Dated monetary limits in the I-T Act
The I-T Act fixes monetary limits for various purposes. Though changes have been made to these limits, most of them are still unrealistic and need to be reviewed. More

Stamp duty deductibility
Recently I took a loan from a bank to purchase a flat in Bangalore. I incurred registration and stamp duty of around Rs 80,000. Is this amount deductible under Section 80C or otherwise eligible for some other tax relief? Gowri, ... More

PEOPLE
Look at any issue from different angles
Mr Ramakrishna Reddy is one of the founders of Fractal Analytics. An MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, he has also done his Masters in Political Philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Here's his take on four questions from Business ... More

BOOKS
Aluminium auditor
With Hindalco in the news for the Novelis acquisition, it may be apt to read Technical Guide on Internal Audit in Aluminium Industry, from the ICAI's Committee on Internal Audit. The book, based on a draft prepared by Rajendra K. Kasliwal, ... More

Free radicals are rebel molecules
Only 5 per cent of pesticides reach target weeds; the rest runs off into water or mixes with air. Roughly half a billion tonnes of chemicals are used annually, worldwide. Here are more fast facts that Paul Kramer mentions in Fighting Body ... More

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