The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, June 28, 2003

Out flows the tax work
BUSINESS process outsourcing (BPO) is a popular current trend among many types of companies, and accounting firms, including the Big Four, are getting on the bandwagon. According to a survey by CFO Magazine and AMR Research, 68.3 per ... More

EDITORIAL

Steeling up
NEW DELHI HAS rightly decided to oppose a move by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to work out an agreement to halt or at least substantially reduce what the US — the force behind the OECD exercise — terms ... More

POLITICS

Exorcise elitism and extortion
The citizens, the bureaucracy, and the political parties are all victims of unsustainable attempts at combining elitism with extortion. If Mumbai, one of the chief victims of calculated extortion, buckles under it, there will be a huge hole in the e conomy. The elitism and the extortion that have crept into our daily lives have to be exorcised, and very quickly, because they are divisive and enervating, says G. Ramachandran. More

Quid pro quo
THE Pakistani strongman, Gen Pervez Musharraf — the subsequent Constitutional and legal "regularisation" of whose position is nothing more than a fig-leaf of spurious respectability for a military dictator following in the footsteps of a ... More

TAXATION

Wind is out of their sails
S. Murlidharan says that tax riders throw ships into murky waters More

A dish of mixed signals
R. Anand on a case where the income earned by a non-resident for transmitting TV signals for various channels could be considered as `arising in India' More

Are two MRPs better than one?
K. Raman looks at duty levy on FMCG cleared for the Canteen Stores Department More

Penalty at no loss
T. C. A. Ramanujam on concealment penalty in loss cases More

ECONOMICS

Economic advice on threat management
BETWEEN the cave man who faced threats from predators and creeping vermin, and the corporate CEO whose job is threatened almost all the time by index swings and board's whims, what is common is `threat'. Government employees threaten to strike ... More

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