Tag: Tax
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India’s claim to becoming a major global export hub gets big boost
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A recent raft of measures revising India’s foreign trade policy is set to bolster exports and further the ease of doing business in the country, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. The Narendra Modi government this week gave a big boost to flagging Indian exports by announcing several…
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The Emergence of the “Supercrat”
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India’s Revenue Secretary, Dr Hasmukh Adhia, embodies the spirit of a new-age bureaucracy, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, independent India’s first Home Minister, famously dubbed the bureaucracy as the “Steel frame of India’. It was, and is, India’s multi-layered bureaucracy that keeps the wheels of the…
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Can Modi cut the Gordian Knot of NPAs?
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The Indian government’s efforts to tackle non-performing assets (NPAs) are central to the growth agenda, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. It could, in times to come, rank as one of the Narendra Modi government’s boldest reform measures—and definitely as the one that exposes his government to the most damaging…
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Big Bang tax reforms & Vodafone’s thumbs-up prove India is a shiny prospect
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The new emerging consensus on important issues marks a tectonic shift in India’s otherwise fractious political discourse, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Now, with the excitement, din and shrill rhetoric of electioneering in five crucial Indian states is over, India’s collective mind thankfully should start getting back to business.…
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India's bold political gamble will pay off
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PM Modi senses the country is united behind him on his bold move, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. If the Opposition is right, then the Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes is nothing short of an economic calamity of proportions never encountered before.…
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India’s biggest tax reform: A guide for foreign investors
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When Prime Minister Modi came to power he promised to tackle ‘tax terrorism” – a recognition that India’s taxation regime was too complicated, cumbersome, inefficient, and significantly prone to corruption. India’s parliament this week has passed the most ambitious tax reform measures in its history. With the rollout of the…