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Indivjal Dhasmana, a senior associate editor at Business Standard, writes on macroeconomics, taxes, and political economy. He has over three decades of experience in various journalism. He currently heads the economics data team at Business Standard.
Indivjal Dhasmana, a senior associate editor at Business Standard, writes on macroeconomics, taxes, and political economy. He has over three decades of experience in various journalism. He currently heads the economics data team at Business Standard.
Said fiscal situation would be comfortable next financial year and there were no concerns about slippages from deficit targets
Patel said RBI and Sebi need to be cognisant of stock market movements
The cost will include all paid expenses plus imputed value of family labour (FL), but not imputed land rent
The government had estimated the collections to grow by 18.3 per cent for 2017-18 in the Budget
Experts say partnership firms and LLPs stand to lose
FY18 collections lower despite additional RBI transfer
The NDA government was able to control inflation more efficiently than the UPA government, aided by soft commodity prices. However, it could not accelerate economic growth by much
The Budget is expected to address rural distress and the common man by focusing on agriculture, job creation, and health
Business Standard looks at past surveys to analyse what their priorities and challenges were
GST collections at Rs 867.03 billion were less than the target of Rs 910 billion combined for the Centre and states
IIP, after slowing for two months, bounced back in November, signalling that industrial revival was back on track
GDP growth for 2016-17 stood at 7.1 per cent
Divergence between CSO advance estimates and central bank's projections of GVA growth
To overtake China next year after getting pipped by it in 2017-18
The GST has two sorts of impacts. One is on the revenue process and the second is the impact on the people who pay taxes and their behaviour, he adds
The fiscal deficit target faces pressure due to less growth in the gross domestic product than estimated in the Budget.
Advance Estimates are used for computing Budget numbers such as fiscal deficit
Meeting the fiscal deficit target will become more difficult in the second half of the fiscal year
Jaitley takes on UPA for widening fiscal deficit
Amendments to the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations say liquidation value to be paid to dissenting lenders will have to be kept confidential