South Africa is becoming a prime go-to destination of Indian business and leisure tourism. Recent updated visa regulations allowed Indian travelers to organize their travel in South Africa easily... Read Full Article »
In a global economy, there's always something going on in terms of tax and trade. Let's take the European Union - or more precisely, Italy for starters, which in recent times has attempted to resist lectures from the European Commission... Read Full Article »
For all the anticipation, last week's revelation by Prime Minister Theresa May that the UK is headed for a "hard Brexit" wasn't quite the seismic shock it perhaps should have been. People have had so long to ruminate on all the myriad... Read Full Article »
I've watched India's GST debacle from the bitter beginning, and had formed the belief that, after year upon year of broken promises, the tax would never see the light of day. However, now, I've been pleasantly surprised by... Read Full Article »
There is a theory, usually expounded by free marketeers, that governments, and societies at large, benefit from tax cuts because: taxpayers are less inclined to find ways to avoid tax and therefore the government collects more revenue... Read Full Article »
Here we go again. Another moral dilemma in government. The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has disseminated personal financial information belonging to 160,000 suspected tax evaders to 20 countries... Read Full Article »
Many newly elected leaders are permitted a honeymoon period that grace period following the election when they can seemingly do or say nothing wrong. Or, more accurately, the brief time that the public is more forgiving than... Read Full Article »
Ive written much in these columns about the measures Narendra Modis Government has taken to improve Indias tax and investment frameworks. But it isnt purely on the domestic front that Modi must seek change if he is to unleash some... Read Full Article »
Something of a tax reform theme emerges from the news this week. And unlike in some countries (I'm talking about you in particular USA), some governments and legislatures are actually putting words into action for a change... Read Full Article »
If you follow politics and current affairs, you tend to hear the word "sorry" uttered at regular intervals these days. Gaffe-prone politicians are often found to be profoundly sorry when unwittingly recorded saying... Read Full Article »
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