Paying the price of pendency

Corporate India seeks fast-track courts, special benches, investment in judicial infrastructure to beat backlog and rising legal expenses Read more »

How the cookie crumbles

Some instances of delays in delivery of justice Read more »

Tax planning in the context of Panama Papers

Evasion is not the same as tax planning. If a manufacturer does not show his production in the register and thereby avoids tax, it is evasion, pure and simple Read more »

I-T exemptions for private varsities

Private universities can claim income-tax exemption only on two conditions: Firstly, an educational institution or a university must be solely for the purpose of education and without any profit motive. Secondly, it... Read more »

Could you be arrested for unpaid student loans?

  Here are a few things we already know about student loans: US borrowers owe over $1.2 trillion in student loans Over 43... Read more »

Behind the invisible hand

The concept of substantial ownership and effective control is inherent in aviation law globally Read more »

A short-term revenue maximisation strategy

E-com companies will incur huge expenditures to tweak their IT systems to deal with entry tax in various states Read more »

Mukesh Butani: There is need to provide FIIs with tax certainty

Tax certainty is a significant concern for FIIs, especially in the case of mutual fund FIIs that have a wide investor-base Read more »

Auction must fetch fair market value

Circle rates are not a true measure to determine the actual market value of a property, the Supreme Court stated while dismissing the appeal case, E-City Entertainment vs State of Uttar Pradesh Read more »

Curbing the power of regulation

The power regulator and the sector can learn from a 5-year legal battle and an order by the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity Read more »