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Time series data of Direct Tax Collections by GOI is being released by IT Dept/CBDT now and then.There is no regularity in release of data and also in data details.Previous Time series data was released upto the year FY18-19 in May/ of 2020.Now this update has been released after 3 years gap.( Time series data ) The time series data contain whole host of details and a student interested in analysing our country's Direct Tax collection , can Data mine large amount of useful information. The most important datapoint is Direct Tax GDP ratio (Chapter 1.4) which has increased to 2.52% in FY21-22. Next to that is Chapter 1.5 which gives Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment Collections.   Two observations based on the latest Time Series Chapter 1.5 details .1)it strengthens the argument that more than 89% of Direct Tax collections are thro Advance tax,TDS and Self assessment Tax.This percentage is even without considering,Equalization levy, Central TDS, Dividend Tax etc.which are also pre a...

All opposition political parties worth their salt have released their election manifestos condemning NPS and promising OPS, if they get elected. Already Congress has reverted back to OPS in Rajasthan, calculating that they will be able to save on Pension in the initial years upto middle of next decade and then the Pension bill will balloon."In the longterm everybody is dead" is what Lord Maynard Keynes said. So Long term is far off politically. OPS is inherently beneficial to Govt employees as they dont contribute to their Pension from their Salary but is wholly unsustainable fiscally and it also benefits Govt employees at the cost of Common man by shifting the burden of their Pension to the tax payers .It is like robbing Peter to pay Paul.If the fiscal deficit exceeds the target fixed by RBI and Govt, then it means the present State Govt is kicking the can down the road for future generations to service the bloated borrowings due to higher fiscal deficit today. But NPS is th...

  பிராமணர்கள் பூர்விகம் இந்த பாரத மண்தான்  1)இந்தியாவை கர்மபூமி-இப்புவியில் உன்னதமான இடம்-என்று வேதங்கள் சொல்கின்றன. பிராமணர்கள் கடைமையாக  தங்கள் சங்கல்ப மந்திரங்களில் இந்திய/பாரத புண்ணிய பூமியில் சடங்குகளை செய்வதாகத்தான் சொல்லித் தொடங்குவார்கள்  2)இந்தியாவில் தான் பிராமணர்களின், இந்துக்களின் அனைத்து வழிபாட்டுதலங்களும் உள்ளன.காசியும், இராமேஸ்வரமும் இவைகளில் மிக முக்கியமானவை.வேற்று நாட்டிலிருந்து வந்தவரானால் இந்தியாவில் வழிபாட்டுத்தலங்களுக்கு முன்னுரிமை கொடுத்திருக்க மாட்டார்கள். இந்நாட்டில் தோன்றிய இராமனையும், சிவனையும், கண்ணனையும் கடவுளர் ஆக்கியிருப்பார்களா. 3)நம் தாய்மொழி தமிழ்,சிவபெருமானின் அருளால் அகத்திய முனிவரால் தொடங்கப்பெற்றது என்று அறிவோம். அவர் பிராமணர்.தமிழின் மிகத்தொன்மையான தொல்காப்பியம் எழுதிய தொல்காப்பியரும் பிராமணர். ஏனெனில் அவர் வடமொழி ஐந்திரம் என்னும் இலக்கண நூல் நன்கு பயின்றவர். இவையெல்லாம் நம்கண்முன்னே உள்ளங்கை நெல்லிக்கனியைப்போல் தெரியும் சான்றுகள். ஆரியன் படையெடுப்பு என்பது ஆங்கிலேய ஏகாதிபத்தியத்தின் வலிந்து திணிக்கபட்ட கோட்பாடு .இது நம் இந்திய ச...

 Q3 FY23 GDP growth estimates released on 28th Feb 2023 mentions 4.4% growth as against 5.4% GDP growth estimated during Q3 of FY 22.With estimate of about 4 to 4.5% growth in Q4, the full year FY 23 GDP growth will be around RBI's GDP growth estimate of 6.8%.The nominal GDP growth for the full year FY23 will be around 15.9% Q2 FY 22 GDP growth is now estimated at 6.3%. The most important datapoint in these estimates is the revision of GDP growth of Pandemic years. The cumulative average real GDP growth during FY19-20 to FY 22-23 is now estimated better at 3.2% as against the potential real GDP growth of 7% of Indian economy. Since the GDP estimates of the previous years have been revised upwards, the base effect has impacted the current year GDP growth estimates. The most worrying aspect of Q3 of FY 23 is the contraction of manufacturing output at -1.1%. Private consumption which contributes about 60% of Indian GDP has also languished at 2.1% in Q3 FY23. Again Statistics reg. IIP ...

  Only unbridled Govt borrowings can crowd out Private investment.FS Somanathan clearly articulated in the post budget press conference that Nominal GDP growth will b 10.5% and incremental Govt Borrowings will grow only 8% or less & therefore, not a problem. As rightly said, Govt Capex will have multiplier effects and will crowd in Private investments. Capex is 3.2% of GDP which  means about 55% of Fiscal Deficit of 5.9% will be used for Capex.That will have huge impact on job creation and other multiplier ripples across the Economy. Capital expenditure is estimated to be Rs 10,00,961 crore (37.4% increase over FY22-23).  The increase in capital expenditure is due to an increase in capital outlay on transport (including railways, roads and bridges, and inland water transport) by Rs 1,28,863 crore (36.1% increase) Revenue deficit in 2023-24 is targeted at 2.9% of GDP, which is lower than the revised estimate of 4.1% in 2022-23(original BE for FY 22-23 was 3.8%).  ...

IMHO,before adversely or favorably commenting on any business group on SocialMedia, all shd make disclaimers that they have not profited from their exposure directly or indirectly thro MFs etc w.r.t that Group of Cos.!!! How do you say crony capitalism in India, when the biggest loss making Public Sector enterprise Air India was sold to Tatas?or becoz Marxist Communist party ruling Kerala wants Adani to complete the port project in Kerala?or becoz Mamata has givena project to Adani in west Bengal? Even though I agree that alleged stock manipulation &violations accusations  are against Adani and not on India, but why #Hindenberg report says India's capital markets r in broken state and that journalists r murdered or imprisoned for writing against country's businessmen. Is it not attack on India? See below H report saying this with a judgmental tone and spreading fake info as if India has slid on civilized capitalist culture has not gone down well with many neutral observers ...

 Indian think-tank at the top in GOI has brought out the PLI Production Linked Incentive Schemes to attract investments into India which can push up our Exports and also provide jobs to the locals.This twin objectives of Value add and Job add have remained Work-in-Progress and the full benefits would start flowing into the economy in about 3-5 years time. Nevertheless the Capex appetitie beyond this ambitious scheme has remained largely muted mainly because of reasons like lack of demand momentum going forward.higher interest rates and large Govt borrowings programme as this is penultimate year before General elections. In this scenario, one of the important avenues open to the Govt is looking at Investment allowance and Depreciation rates.Earlier it has been demonstrated that whenever the IA and Depreciation rates are increased for a limited period, there has been a pickup in Capex investments inorder to save on Corporate Taxes. But now the Tax rates have already been lowered and ...