Union Budget 2020 Live Updates: PM Modi says budget will increase income, investment, demand and consumption, and will bring new vigor in financial system and credit flow

Currently, Indian companies pay over 15% dividend distribution tax on declared dividends and investors pay another 10% tax on receiving more than one million rupees ($14,070) dividend in a financial year

Republic Day 2020 live updates: For the first time ever, the Prime Minister honoured the martyrs at the National War Memorial instead of the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate

Budget 2020: The government infused Rs 2,500 crore in the three insurers -- National Insurance, Oriental Insurance and United India Insurance -- through first supplementary demands for grants for 2019-20 last month

The Indian economy is going through one of its longest spells of slowdown - six quarters and counting

As the Council now needs to find ways to enhance revenues through GST, next year could see the Council deliberating on hiking GST rates on certain items

Paying tributes to former finance minister Arun Jaitley on his birth anniversary on Saturday, Venkaiah Naidu went down the memory lane recalling his long association with him

According to the report submitted by a committee of central and state GST officers, the gap in the compensation could be Rs 63,200 crore if GST revenues grow at 5 per cent

In the run-up to Budget 2020, the Centre has no option but to crack down on GST evasion, even at the expense of criticism of another round of tax terrorism

Many states are facing severe revenue constraints as GST collections remain subdued and Centre delays transfer of their share of taxes

The second and concluding part looks at how the quarterly GDP estimates use the organised sector indicators to measure the unorganised sector, which contributes nearly 50% to the GDP, thereby giving a misleading picture of the state of economic health

From an unaccounted system of how much money came into a political party and where it was spent, these bonds have put a leash on income and expenditure on elections by a political party

The rethink has come as representative employers and employees offered mixed reactions in a recent consultation meeting with the labour and employment ministry.

The Budget Estimates for 2020-21 will be provisionally finalised after the expenditure secretary completes discussions with other secretaries and financial advisers.