National Institute Of Public Finance And Policy

GST: Govt may have to cut infrastructure spending as revenue is hit, fiscal math goes for a toss

Hurried rollout of GST has impacted state coffers. Dividends from state-run companies are expected to fall and a $11 billion share sale programme is slowing down

BJP's refusal to tax rich farmers shows party lacks courage to rise over vote bank politics a la Congress

The BJP which came to power on the pretext of nationalism and often dissed Congress for its vote bank politics unfortunately also lacks the courage to upset the rich farmers who control the vote bank

GST Council meet: Not time for false optimism, there are bigger political issues to be resolved

Industry had been asking for a Rs 25 lakh cut-off (which would have brought seven crore companies into the net), but the GST Council seems to have struck a happy compromise at Rs 20 lakh.

Mr FM, why pass a flawed Cong-drafted GST law when you can do better?

The 2014 electoral verdict reflected the expectation that the BJP would correct the wrongs committed by the Congress-led UPA.

‘Firms may have to undergo dual audits under GST; it is not a fair system’

Revenue neutral rate is not the rate at which GST will be implemented; it only gives a sense of what the revenue implications could be under various scenarios, says Kavita Rao of of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Raghuram Rajan no longer a rate cut virgin, but 25 bps amounts to little

For monetary policy to drive private investments and consumer spending, interest rates need to come down by a huge margin

Reports on black money estimates likely by April-end: FinMin

The government on Friday said reports on black money estimates are likely to be submitted to the Finance Ministry by three institutes, including National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), by April end.

Black money: Top Indian tax team heads to Switzerland

ources said that the delegation, which will lay special focus on a number of pending requests, will be led by Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das and will have CBDT Chairman KV Chowdary and two other officials of the finance ministry's foreign taxation wing as its members.

No official estimate on black money, says Jaitley

The government has commissioned studies to ascertain unaccounted income and wealth both within and outside the country.<br />