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...
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Prosenjit Datta
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...
Fix the GST
The tax requires a complete overhaul – and both the Centre and the states need to work together and make some concessions. The Central Government’s decision to borrow Rs 1.1 lakh crore and then pass it on to states to...
Reach out to the states
The Union Government can hope to revive the economy and implement its reforms if it mends its relationship with the states The extent of the economic mess India finds itself in is hardly a secret. The most stringent...
