The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 02, 2005

Fair shift
THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION to amend the Factories Act to allow women to work the night shift is a recognition of the changed realities of business operations the world over. No doubt, the International Labour Organisation's Convention on Night ... More

TAXATION

White and well written
Mohan R. Lavi on the positive signals from the recent White Paper on VAT More

And say which grain will grow and which will not
ABOUT "wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease," and "turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep," one reads in The Tempest. But what caused a near tempest between National Cereal Product and the Uttar ... More

SOCIAL WELFARE

On the right path to social regeneration
SOME weeks ago, a Uttar Pradesh district magistrate had figured in this column for his sociable act of adopting a child whom he had found crying on a railway station platform and beginning the process of giving the ... More

INCOME TAX

First, buy time
T. C. A. Ramanujam calls for deferring the fringe benefit tax More

The criteria mania
The one-by-six scheme merely generates paperwork and does not widen the tax base, says T. N. Pandey More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Making search and seizure less taxing
Keeping in mind the human rights of the tax-paying citizens, clear guidelines have been laid down for the tax authorities while authorising a search. These guidelines should result in search and seizure operations being undertaken in a transparent ma nner and should also discourage evasion. Yet, says H. P. Ranina, human nature being what it is, many will continue to seek the forbidden fruit, knowing that the tax administration is yet to put its house in order. More

BOOKS

F-16s on radar, let's re-count dollars
RENU Kohli's "Liberalizing Capital Flows," from Oxford (www.oup.com) couldn't have come at a better time. With an overflowing forex kitty, and a Guv in control, we're debating full capital account ... More

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