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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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A K Bhattacharya: Making tax collection less taxing
Tracking a smaller number of taxpayers with a high income base and using data from millionaire surveys and purchases of high-end cars and houses can make the tax department more efficient
A K Bhattacharya: Making haste slowly
In India, any major policy change can take at least seven to 10 years
A K Bhattacharya: Jaitley's 16,473-word balancing act
An analysis of the frequency of various watchwords in the finance minister's Budget speech shows that he was perhaps trying to hold on to his ideas without treading on anybody else's toes
A K Bhattacharya: Beware of those revenue numbers
It is important for the finance minister not to impose on his tax collection team a revenue target that is unrealistic
A K Bhattacharya: Will the NDA follow suit?
The Modi govt has used its predecessor's decisions conveniently so far, but it remains to be seen if it also allows the empowerment of states
A K Bhattacharya: The new order
In a system as centralised as the one introduced by the new government are there enough safeguards or safety valves?
A K Bhattacharya: Miracles in March
A sharp jump in revenues and an expenditure squeeze in the last month of every financial year point to an urgent need to devise a better system
A K Bhattacharya: Decoding the Modi government
In the formation of the Council of Ministers, the compulsions of keeping the party leaders and alliance partners happy took precedence over the goal of rationalising existing ministries
A K Bhattacharya: Small government, big gains
Narendra Modi should take advantage of his party's majority to shrink the size of the Cabinet
A K Bhattacharya: Towards a credible budget
Four steps the new government should take to prepare a budget that will restore all-round confidence
A K Bhattacharya: It's official - Change is coming
Confident that the existing political dispensation is set to bow out of office, civil servants have already begun positioning themselves suitably