Budget 2025: Key reforms expected in the indirect tax ecosystemThe budget aims to include key sectors under GST, streamline assessment processes, and provide clarity on plant and machinery credits.
21 Jan, 2025, 11.13 AM IST
Interim Budget 2024: Check full text of FM Nirmala Sitharaman's speech hereThe Finance Minister presented the Interim Budget 2024 in a speech that lasted for 48 minutes. The budget focuses on four main areas: women...
01 Feb, 2024, 04.39 PM IST
Transforming India's Trade Facilitation: Achieving efficiency and fairness in customs processesIndia's National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) recognised early that TFA would not ensure significant gains unless the border ecos...
30 Oct, 2023, 11.55 PM IST
View: The insights from NTRS 2023 on boosting exportsn keeping with the trend over the last few years, there has been further improvement in ART, measured by the time taken from the arrival of...
11 Jul, 2023, 12.31 AM IST
How exporters are getting steamrolled by a six-decades-old lawThe government is streamlining systems to make trade easier. But the Customs Act of 1962 has many loopholes and ambiguities that puts expor...
25 Mar, 2023, 09.51 AM IST
Customs Act, 1962: The past, present and the futureOver the years, domestic legal jurisprudence has also evolved, with courts evaluating the provisions of the Customs Act on the touchstone o...
13 Dec, 2022, 12.07 AM IST
Ease of doing business: It takes 22 days to clear a ship in Indian ports. China does it in 5India’s ports have multiple trade barriers, the trading community says. These are making businesses and goods uncompetitive in the global m...
14 Jul, 2022, 11.57 AM IST
Nirmala Sitharaman's fourth Budget: The full speechIndia has pledged to spend more to fire up the key engines of economic growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, as it stages a world-beating...
03 Feb, 2022, 10.21 AM IST
‘China sees PLI scheme as a threat. The govt should step on the gas’The global order is changing, people are looking at a China Plus One strategy. India is showing a lot of potential under these circumstance...
16 Aug, 2021, 09.32 AM IST
Centre identifies 9,732 compliances to be tweaked or erased, states too likely to scrap archaic lawsThe deadline is critical as India is set to celebrate its 75th Independence Day this year with a likely focus on “ease of living” and “ease...
18 Apr, 2021, 09.36 AM IST
Delhi, Mumbai Customs to start faceless cargo assessment from August 3"Board has decided to begin the 2nd phase of All India rollout of faceless assessment w.e.f. August 3, 2020, by including Delhi and Mumbai ...
02 Aug, 2020, 12.06 PM IST
Customs to begin faceless cargo assessment for imports in Chennai and BengaluruTo begin with, imports covered by Chapters 84 and 85 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 which includes machinery, mechanical appliances, elect...
07 Jun, 2020, 09.46 AM IST
Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget for 2019-20: Key HighlightsAt first glance, it looked like Union Budget 2019 has disappointed Dalal Street.
05 Jul, 2019, 08.00 PM IST
Budget 2019 speech by FM Piyush Goyal: Full textTo promote entertainment industry - Single window clearance for ease of shooting films, available only to foreigners, is now going to be ma...
02 Feb, 2019, 11.57 AM IST
Budget 2019: Read full text of Piyush Goyal's speech in ParliamentIn Budget speech, FM not only tried to woo the middle class, but also tried to address rural stress.
01 Feb, 2019, 03.43 PM IST
Modi government to change customs duty architecture to boost trade, ease of doing businessGovt is set to make changes to the customs duty to speed up India’s trade & ease of doing business.
03 Dec, 2018, 09.47 PM IST