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Govt forced to listen to people: Rahul on rollback of proposal to tax EPF withdrawal
Fp Archives • 9 years agoAs the government rolled back the controversial proposal to tax EPF withdrawal, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday mounted a fresh attack on it
Govt is on your side, govt wants to work with you: Sinha on EPF withdrawal
Fp Archives • 9 years agoThe government rolled back the proposal to tax EPF withdrawals as it realised that concerns raised by lots of people are very legitimate, said Jayant Sinha
Real Estate Bill will be a reality in this Budget session: Venkiah Naidu
Fp Archives • 9 years agoNaidu on Monday confidently said that the Real Estate Bill will become a "reality" during the ongoing Budget session of Parliament.
More power to you: Electricity reaches 6,000 villages, PMO claims 'rapid progress'
Fp Archives • 9 years agoElectrification has been done in 6,000 of the 18,500 unelectrified villages and the renewable energy capacity has reached 39.5 Giga Watts, a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told.
Govt to subsume additional cesses under GST within one year: Tax official
Fp Archives • 9 years agoGovernment will subsume all the additional levies like Krishi Kalyan and Infrastructure cess in the Goods and Services Tax (GST), within one year of its implementation, a senior tax official said on Saturday.
#BudgetImpact: Finance minister Jaitley's plan will create jobs at bottom of pyramid, say experts
Sulekha_nair • 9 years agoA large number of youth in the country are unable to get jobs due to lack of job-ready skills.
#BudgetImpact: Jewellers across country to pull down shutters for 3 days protesting against 1% excise duty
Fp Staff • 9 years agoJewellers across the country have decided to pull down shutters for three days protesting against the budget imposition of one per cent excise duty in the jewellery sector
Budget 2016: TCS, Wipro hail SEZ scheme extension, digital plans
Fp Archives • 9 years agoSoftware majors TCS and Wipro on Monday lauded Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for extending tax benefit to export units under the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) scheme till 2020 and the government's Digital India plans in his budget for 2016-17.
Tax on EPF: Middle class should not be unhappy with Budget 2016 when it has Kanhaiya Kumar
Sandipan Sharma • 9 years agoWho wants more money in hand when the government is giving us Kanhaiya?
Congress forced this budget on Modi's 'suit-boot' sarkar, writes Sachin Pilot
Sachinp • 9 years agoThe budget focuses on hype, does not make a coherent policy statement that would spur investment, business confidence, and growth. Bottom line: It does not sizzle; it fizzles