Apart from gross domestic product (GDP) and gross value added (GVA), another indicator which shows whether an economy is thriving or stagnating is the growth in bank credit. Credit is a critical input in the production of goods and services. It is generally the case that during prosperous times, economic actors, who are engaged in different sectors or in various industry, take up bank loans to invest. The provisional data...
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All you need to know about GST
-Livemint.com Here are some FAQs about the Goods and Services Tax (GST) slated for rollout on 1 July What is GST? Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a value-added tax at each stage of the supply of goods and services precisely on the amount of value addition achieved. It seeks to eliminate inefficiencies in the tax system that result in ‘tax on tax’, known as cascading of taxes. GST is a destination-based...
More »GST Is Proving to Be a Procedural Nightmare for Small Service Providers and Traders -MK Venu
-TheWire.in Most of the outreach efforts of the finance ministry to explain and create awareness about the GST have been with the bigger industry players. It is becoming increasingly clear that that neither the Centre nor states are adequately prepared to launch the goods and services tax (GST) on July 1. The sheer multiplicity of taxes, as also different tax slabs for the same commodity or service, is a problem which has...
More »Maharastra farm loan waiver: Panel for blanket waiver in suicide-hit Vidarbha, Marathwada -Nanda Kasabe
-The Financial Express Pune: Prominent farm activist and current chairman of the special task force constituted by the government of Maharashtra on agrarian crisis, Kishore Tiwari, has urged CM Devendra Fadnavis to cover all the farmers of the 14 distressed districts of Vidarbha and Marathwada in the blanket loan waiver announced on Sunday without any conditions. Welcoming the loan waiver announced by the government, Tiwari said farmers in the distressed districts...
More »Note ban effect: GDP growth enters slow lane in Q4 at 6.1% -Ishan Bakshi & Indivjal Dhasmana
-Business Standard GVA growth at 2-year low of 5.6%; Farming only bright spot India’s economic growth fell to 6.1 per cent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016-17 (FY17), primarily because of demonetisation adversely affecting economic activity. This was at least a four-quarter low. The sectors worst affected were construction and financial services. Without indirect taxes, growth figures would be more dismal. Gross value added (GVA), the difference between gross domestic product...
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