The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 26, 2003

Reforms, RIP
TO START WITH the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at the personal level, and the NDA Government, at the aggregate, were never convinced converts to economic reforms. For them the reforms ideology was a passing fad to be loftily aired at ... More

TAXATION

Keeping pace with finance law
K. Srinivasan discusses the whys and wherefores of some proposed amendments to the Finance Act More

Birth pangs
LIKE much else in the past, the labour pains that are being experienced with regard to the implementation of the value-added tax scheme shows once again that even the most economically sensible of Government policies will first have to pass the ... More

Is VAT a precursor to VAA?
Though not as much in news as VAT, Value Added Accounting, if and when ushered in, will have much relevance for the less exciting world of accounts, says S. Murlidharan. More

ECONOMICS

In search of the perfect economist
PLURAL is more than one kind of, person or thing, from Latin pluralis, which in turn is from plus, meaning more. Pluralising, as a grammar exercise, must have troubled many in school, with ever so many exceptions to suffixing the singular ... More

INCOME TAX

This business of business connection
Lawyers and accountants may welcome attempts to define "business connection", but it will not benefit non-residents or their agents. The amendments are unprovoked and will spur litigation, says T. C. A. Ramanujam. More

PEOPLE

Blackwill resignation: Act or reality?
Was it really an identification with India's cause that prompted Mr Robert Blackwill's resignation? Jayanthi Iyengar takes a look at the Blackwill talks and at the man whose tough bargaining for America's interests earned him the secret sobri quet of "buccaneer diplomat". More

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