Removing the retrospective tax, while a good step, is not enough to solve the tax disputes problem The retrospective tax provision that the late Pranab Mukherjee had introduced as a clause buried in the fine print...
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Prosenjit Datta
The Prosaicview Podcast on the OECD/G20 Tax Proposal
In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, I discuss the OECD/G20 tax proposal that 130 countries have broadly agreed on with Mr Rohinton Sidhwa, Partner, Deloitte India. We discuss its implications for India, the...
Vodafone-Idea Case: Don’t Miss the Woods for the Trees
The troubles at Vi are huge. But they are actually just a symptom of the mess in the telecom industry which needs to be fixed. Vi – the Indian telecom giant formed by the merger of Vodafone India and the AV Birla...
PSUs: The Right Questions and the Wrong Ones
The two most important questions are almost never asked when the decision to disinvest or privatise a PSU is taken Whenever any government in India announces its intention to privatise or otherwise dispose off any...
The Prosaicview Podcast on Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting
In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, I talk with Dr Inderjeet Singh, Director – Financial Advisory, Deloitte India about the new Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) norms that the...
Monitor Those Vaccine Side Effects
Our system of tracking long term side effects and breakthrough infections leaves a lot to be desired The government has finally got around to admitting that some “potential thromboembolic events” – or formation of blood...
The Pre Budget Podcast 3 – Fixing the Economy
Sanjay Kumar, Partner and National Public Policy Leader of Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, Editor in Chief, Prosaicview to discuss what the Budget can do to speed up the recovery and put India back on a sustained...
Allowing Foxes in the Hen House
The suggestion of the RBI Internal Working Group that corporations should be allowed to own banks is a bad idea It is a bit difficult to understand why the Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank of India bats...
The future of global manufacturing
Flexibility and de-risking are going to be more important than scale and cheap labour in the post Covid world The Coronavirus pandemic and China’s rising tensions with several countries are changing supply chains...
The Policy Problem in Manufacturing
India cannot become a manufacturing hub unless the union and state governments are on the same page. That is a difficult task but not impossible Elected leaders, in general, decide on policies with short term profit in...
