A host of global corporations—Vodafone, Microsoft, Dassault, to name a few—struggle to comprehend the country's tax administration and its ways. How bad is it and what is the way out?

Budget speech on 28th February, Friday, 2014.

The Finance Minister had risked it all on his bet on growth and seems to have come up a winner. Now comes the task of restoring normality in finances and speeding up reforms.

As government remains confused between outlays and outputs, the 5-year old promise of matching outlays with outcome remains unfulfilled.

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The government could also consider the recommendations of the Fifth and Sixth Pay Commissions aimed at improving the efficiency of public services, writes Yashwant Sinha.Special: Budget 2009-'10 Video: UPA to unveil Budget on July 6 Photos: Can Pranab's Budget boost the economy?

BJP government’s first budget in Karnataka is a damp squib. It has no bold reform initiatives of the kind the NDA reign piloted. Instead, it’s a bundle of freebies—a few reasonable, many unjustifiable.

Resigned: Vinod Dhall, as Acting Chairman of the Competition Commission of India. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, of which CCI is a part, recently advertised for the position of Chairman and five other members of the CCI board.

A good pre-budget analysis - What will he do? Clearly And systematically evaluates the issues, considerations and the approach that is likely to be adopted by the Finance Minister in Budget 2008.

Budget 2008-09, which is high on promises for indebted farmers, rural development projects focussing on health, education and employment, also tucked in a few surprises for the urban tax payers.

The Budget is not going to be easy for the Finance Minister.Not because it is expected to be an election budget, fraught with all the attendant expectations - from recalcitrant allies to tax-payers to deprived India, which, justifiably, wants its share of the boom.

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Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s report card on tax collections over the last seven months has earned applause from all around.

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India is on the threshold of a retail revolution. In fact, it has, in some segments, already traversed some way down that path.