In India, power to tax agricultural income lies with the state governments. For a variety of reasons the state governments have been reluctant to introduce a full-fledged agricultural income tax, thus introducing a basic inequality...
In 2012, Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Laureate, one of the world’s foremost thinkers in contemporary economics, author of the 2012 best-seller titled “The Price of Inequality” was quoted in the New York Times as...
Germany and France have made a fresh appeal to the European Union executive to pave the ground for a tax on financial transactions. They hope it can be introduced in at least nine of the...