The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 14, 2002

Mending cable TV
WHILE PUSHING THE cable television networks regulation Bill through the Rajya Sabha this week, the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ms Sushma Swaraj, made it known that she was driven by the singular desire of making television watching ... More

ECONOMY

Interest rates and taxes — Can they serve a social purpose?
The sharp drop in interest rates has hit not only the senior citizens, who depend on income from term deposits, but also those who are saving towards their retirement, apart from bearing the rising educational expenses of wards and maintaining relati ves. The state must provide some savings instrument that yields sufficient income for all these categories. Many new ideas can be adopted to give taxation a social purpose, says P. R. Brahmananda. More

TAXATION

Bizarre world of demerger
S. Murlidharan on the quirks in the demerger regime More

Does tax simplification mean better compliance?
With the corruption levels and the lack of quick enforcement and probability of getting caught low and prosecution even less, no tax law, however simple, will do the trick by itself. Unless the government and the judiciary can demonstrate that they h ave reset the equations, it is going to be difficult to significantly boost collections just on the strength of simplification. More

The system can do more bytes
R. Venkata Subramani says that the information technology suggestions in the Kelkar report, though radical, are worth pursuing More

Why not condone delays
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the roadblocks in the filing of appeals More

DISINVESTMENT

There's no easy way to lose weight
THE Department of Disinvestment (DoDi) has a no-nonsense Web site that gives a lot of information. For instance, it gives as rationale for disinvestment of public sector units enterprises or PSEs but more commonly known as PSUs — the ... More

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