How the FM can make it a 'never before' Budget. Top experts weigh in

Reducing the regulatory compliance burden is a priority area for the government. There are a lot of compliance burdens and we have to reduce that. Every ministry is doing this on a war footing, a senior official said

FM Nirmala Sitharaman said India's GDP will remain \"underestimated\" if commercial transactions do not come under monitorable radar

The government can make it mandatory for new Chinese entrants to have a joint venture with an Indian firm as a partner, should they choose to start a business in India, a similar policy is followed by China

MSMEs have claimed that GST Act imposes higher tax rate and compliance burden for businesses selling online, thus preventing them from swiftly transitioning to online platforms

DMK legislator P Thiagarajan's comments come while the government is scrambling to find money to fund its key expenditure programmes

Not only India's relief packages are grossly inadequate it is not even spending enough to revive demand in the crisis-hit economy; what is needed is clear: more fiscal spending, not \"keeping the power dry\" for future stimulus or unrealistic claim of a V-shaped recovery

According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, that covered 813 firms across India, Indian employers report cautious hiring plans for the final quarter of 2020

Buying a term plan takes a lot of burden off your shoulders and empowers you to live a stress-free life; whether it's your child's higher education or your parents' medical bills, a good term insurance plan will take care of it all in times of need

Developed economies have sound, fiscally-supported systems to respond to workers' distress in normal times, which they scaled up several notches with higher fiscal support to fight the current crisis. India doesn't have such a system nor did it rise up to the crisis; it isn't even tracking job loss

Under the law, the obligation to compensate the states falls solely on the central government, the senior Congress leader noted

Congress seeks extension of GST compensation cess collection to 10 years; demands all borrowing to tide over COVID-19 crisis must be done by the Centre

Senior citizens have been hit hardest by record low interest rates since that is their main source of regular income during retirement years. There are also very few health insurance plans available above 65, and those that are there come with high premiums. Heres How they can tide over this crisis

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Apart from this, the government has revised the definition of priority and negative lists and downstream industries in the IPR-2015 to remove ambiguity in determining the eligibility of business units for various incentives

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the platform 'Transparent Taxation Honoring the Honest' which provides for launch of faceless assessment and adoption of a taxpayer charter

Most governments across the world incentivise debts to drive business even when it leads to over-borrowing, economic instability, tax evasion and adversely impacts investment in public goods. In contrast, equity-driven business has none of these ill-effects, produces better economic outcomes too

EMI of your loan consists of two parts -- interest amount and principal repayment

Retail sales plunged 13.7% in April from a year earlier, heavily weighed by slumping demand for general merchandise, clothing and vehicles

States finally have headroom to borrow more from the market. But there's a cost to it