Finance

Safe assets: Digging new foundations in the small towns

Retail and warehousing are being driven by availability of large tracts of land on highways outside the metros, the steadily improving infrastructure and possibility of higher yields.

Jun 19, 2017

GST Council allows late filing in first two months of tax regime launch

Companies need to file a complete return of their sales invoices by the 10th of the following month, with a second by the 15th, and a third return to calculate their tax bill.

Jun 18, 2017

Recovery time: Bankers to meet on Monday to decide on RBI's defaulter list

The 12 accounts were identified by the IAC after studying the top 500 ones in the banking system for defaulter urgency and insolvency potential.

Jun 18, 2017

Growth rage? Angry Birds may look at tapping markets

Angry Birds creator Rovio just returned to profit last year with its movie The Angry Birds, which became the third highest grossing animation feature in China.

Jun 17, 2017

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Taxing with parity: India all set for GST, says top Finance Ministry official

GST will require firms to file at least three online tax returns monthly into the GST Network, which will process up to 5 billion invoices a month.

Jun 17, 2017

Thank haven! Swiss bank vaults may crack under Modi govt heat

Switzerland and India agree to share financial information on Indian bank accounts on automatic basis from September 2019.

Jun 16, 2017

Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank to pilot two rounds of bank mergers

Banks have been asked to explore issues such as overlap of branches, technical integration and whether there would be anti-competition concerns that could emerge

Jun 15, 2017

Riding the waive: A growth dream betrayed

Farmer pains will be only partly eased by loan waivers even as the next round of balance-sheet agony for banks and coops gets primed for release.

Jun 13, 2017

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Loan waiver payback: Farmers start wilfully defaulting on loans

While it is early to quantify the extent of loan delinquency by farmers, bankers say that in some states, the default rate has increased by up to 50 percent in recent months.

Jun 13, 2017

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Search for next SBI chairman begins

Arundhati Bhattacharya was appointed in 2013 as the bank's first woman chairman, and got a year's extension in October 2016, as SBI was in the process of merging its associate banks with itself.

Jun 12, 2017

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Boxing the box office: Revised tax rates on movie tickets will spur torrents, piracy, say Netizens

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said movie tickets priced under Rs 100 will carry an 18 percent tax rate, while those above Rs 100 would be taxed at 28 percent.

Jun 11, 2017

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Big relief for small industry: GST Council slashes rates on 66 items

The Finance Ministry tweeted on Sunday that it received representations for about 133 items from industry, of which rates were reduced on 66 items.

Jun 11, 2017

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Farm loan waivers are necessary, but not a solution: MS Swaminathan

Three states have waived farm loans so far – Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and most recently, Maharashtra. But protests have been raging in Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu over similar demands.

Jun 10, 2017

HDFC Bank to roll back UPI charge plan

The National Payments Corporation of India which runs the UPI railroads had requested the bank to reconsider the decision and is expected to call a meeting with bankers very soon

Jun 9, 2017