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EPF Tax Rollback A Welcome Relief To Salaried Class, Say Experts

The rollback of the controversial EPF tax proposal is a step in the right direction and will bring welcome relief to the salaried class, say tax experts

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FM Jaitley Withdraws Tax On EPF After Backlash

Buckling under pressure, the government on Tuesday announced in Parliament that the proposal to tax 60 per cent of Employees’ Provident Fund has been withdrawn

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‘5/20 Rule Should Be Abolished’

Mittu Chandilya, CEO and MD of AirAsia India, spoke to BW Businessworld’s Haider Ali Khan about the 5/20 rule and his airline

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British Government Considers Hike In Visa Fees

The move will affect thousands of Indians who were the largest group of skilled workers to be granted visas to live and work in Britain last year

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Black Money: Reserve Bank To Share FDI Information With IB, RAW

The move comes after Cabinet Secretariat - under whose administrative control Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) functions - expressed concern over companies in tax havens investing in the country

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China Says Economy Will 'Ábsolutely Not' Experience Hard Landing

China has about 150,000 state-owned enterprises, managing more than 100 trillion yuan ($15 trillion) in assets and employing over 30 million people, according to the official Xinhua news agency

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China Aims To Maintain Growth Pace, Fend Off Unemployment In 5-Year Plan

Growth of 6.5 percent would mark a ripping pace for most countries but would be the slowest in China in a quarter century as world's No. 2 economy grapples with gyrating financial markets, softening global trade and efforts to reduce environmental degradation

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Warped Priorities Dictate Future Development In Delhi

The various plans prepared by the Delhi Development Authority do not properly recognise or provide for the needs of a large section of society

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Defence Purchases: India Recalibrates FMS Account In US

India and the US have fine-tuned the FMS procedure whereby rather than raising bills case-wise every quarter, all the funds against various cases have been pooled together in a corpus

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Climate Change To Cause More Weather Extremes

The study estimates around 500,000 people will die due to reasons related to dietary changes by 2050

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