Finance minister P Chidambaram claims that Budget 2007 addresses the challenges confronting Indian agriculture. How true is this claim?

By not paying attention to the wish lists of business and industry groups, P Chidambaram has done the right thing. The measures related to tax...

The Union Budget 2007-08 utterly fails to appropriately respond to the social needs of a situation of profit inflation. The situation demanded an...

This article first argues why independent taxation of corporate profits and dividend incomes has ill-effects on equity and efficiency and then...

The opportunity provided by high growth and a comfortable revenue situation to make a serious attempt to boost allocations for education and...

cess has been increased from 2 to 3 per Implications for Education cent this year, the implications of which Budget 2007 has increased allocation...

article examines the fiscal adjustment that the Union Budget 2007-08 aims at. It also looks at how the growth momentum of the economy can be...

The emphasis on better utilisation of existing capacity in the Indian railways has obviously come to stay, though the railway budget of 2006-07...

What kind of Goods and Services Tax is under contemplation? Will it only replace CENVAT and the service taxes levied by the centre, leaving, the...