It is often what is not in the Budget speech that gives a better insight into the government’s thinking. A quick look at some of them As in every Budget these days, it is not what is said in the Budget speech but what...
Category - Economy
Prosenjit Datta
Three Pieces of Advice for the Government
The Finance Minister would do well to keep these basic principles in mind It is the job of opinion writers to give advice to the government. It is the prerogative of the government to ignore them. Before any budget...
The Bad Bank is a Bad Idea
Setting up something like this ignores the basic issues that caused the bad loans in the first place From time to time, the idea of the Bad Bank, which will house all the bad loans of public sector banks and deal with...
How to Understand the Budget
Five things to keep in mind to separate the noise from the substance For business editors, corporate titans and economists, the great Budget circus is an annual national event second only to, perhaps, IPL. The build up...
The Pre Budget Podcast 5 – Direct Tax Questions
In this episode, Himanshu Sinha, who leads the tax practice at Trilegal gives his views on what is possible on the direct tax front, why he remains bullish about tax collections, and also why the Covid cess is the...
Too many shortcuts
The DCGI needs to realise that unlike a vaccine will eventually be given to the entire population and that is why it is particularly important to be careful about approving it. The Coronavirus pandemic has tested the...
The Pre Budget Podcast 4 – The Agriculture questions
The Finance Minister’s allocations for agriculture and her proposals for the sector will be keenly watched in the upcoming Budget. Anand Ramanathan, Partner of Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, Editor in...
The Pre Budget Podcast 2 – All About Taxes
Anil Talreja, partner, Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, editor in chief of Prosaicview to discuss the tax changes that might come in the first Post Covid Budget to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala...
The Pre Budget Podcast 1 – Exports
Mahesh Jaisingh, partner, Deloitte and Prosenjit Datta discuss what the government can do to improve India’s export performance
1980s: The Overlooked Decade
While the 1990s is taken as the decade when economic reforms were initiated, the role of the policies of the 1980s need to be re examined In our post-Independence history, the 1980s is generally remembered for all the...
