The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 09, 2005

Short on credibility
THE ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT 2005 to the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2004-2009 released on Friday by the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, boasts of a number of forward-looking measures intended to impart dynamism to India's growing export performance. ... More

PETROLEUM

Oil: Super spike or crying wolf?
A recent Goldman Sachs report on oil demand explains the essence of a super spike, saying that demand has to fall "because spare capacity throughout the energy supply chain is limited" and "supply additions take a long time to complete." The authors' suggestion: Oil exporting countries must reinvest cash flows into building "a diversified economic base that can allow the majority of their growing populations to have economic hope". D. Murali on the report. More

TAXATION

A narrative on derivatives
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the gaps in the amendments to derivatives taxation More

Superfluity comes sooner with white hairs
COLOURABLE transactions are what taxmen don't like. On that score, when a company manufacturing hair-dye approaches the Department, it is but natural that the officers try to find what lies under the artificial hue. ... More

Standard, dead and buried
S. Murlidharan on how standardised deduction rather than standard deduction is the leveller between the salaried and the self-employed More

Is FBT a fundamentally blemished tax?
C. Sankaranarayanan on the legitimacy of taxing fringe benefits More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

Time to streamline regulatory law-making
Over the years, governments have failed to foresee the need for consistent and coherent approach towards independent regulation. Doing that would require putting an overarching framework in place to guide the formulation of any sectoral regulatory bo dy. More

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