With the Empowered Committee on state finance ministers dealing a blow to Orissa's key demand of keeping coal royalty out of the purview of the proposed Goods & Service Tax (GST), the state

The meeting between finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and India Inc’s top guns on August 1 had brought back “the spirit of 1991”, as one prominent industrialist said on prime time

Though the finance ministry expects the economy to grow at 8.6 per cent this year, the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) has lowered the growth forecast to 8.2 per cent from

An expert committee constituted by the Orissa government to broaden the state's revenue base, has recommended the state government to hike the base rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) from four to five

Even as its key demand of keeping coal royalty out of the purview of the proposed Goods & Service Tax (GST) is understood to have been turned down by the Centre following opposition from