Tag: Tax Collections

Core sectors show sharp dip in growth

A day after data on direct tax collections indicated dismal growth in key sectors, the bad news was confirmed on Friday by fresh data on the growth of six core infrastructure sectors, which showed they had grown by just 3.9% in the first half of current financial year, a sharp dip from 6.9% for April-September […]

Economists’ Recommend Not To Cut Direct Tax Rates In Budget

Jan 09, New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram received two contradictory suggestions from economists and industrialists. “Given the circumstances that there a number of fiscal stress points in the offing, like oil bonds, MSS, pay commission, it is not prudent to start thinking of reducing tax rates,” Standard & Poor’s Chief Economist (Asia-Pacific) Mr. Subir […]