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Hard-cover • 2017
Pages: 326
ISBN: 9789332703889
US$65.95
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Development and Taxation

60 Critical Commentaries

Parthasarathi Shome

About the Book

This volume is a collection of selected critical commentaries on various aspects of the Indian and global economies. The author has used a mix of verbal and graphical tools, comprising his thoughts on economic, political economy and social challenges and incorporating analysis, conclusions, and recommendations on those issues. The articles address macroeconomic concerns including the estimation of GDP, savings and growth, inflation and interest rates, financial markets, demonitisation of the currency, land acquisition, and others. They analyse fiscal policy and taxation matters including tax evasion and corruption, and the struggle to improve the ease of doing business. Emerging international economic relations including United Kingdom’s leaving the European Union and India’s economic and strategic relations with Japan, China, Latin America, and, last but not least, with Pakistan, are addressed. Issues emerging from the Group of 20 Nations (G20) are not ignored. On socio-economic aspects, India’s challenges and failures in designing and implementing a range of socio-economic policies are addressed. Health and palliative care, cleaning up India, quality deterioration in the Indian Railways, and the failure to educate Indian youth, are taken up. A selection of essays with political economy and socio-historical perspectives concludes with a final philosophical note—that thoughts can comprise ideas, thus summing up, as it were, the overall stance in the narrative of the included commentaries.

Praise for this book

<p>Over the years that I have been reading Partho’s articles in the Business Standard, I have been struck by his amazing insight and understanding of issues ranging far beyond taxation, of which he is undoubtedly a master, as evidenced by his invaluable contribution to three governments across the world, India, Brazil and the UK. What sets Partho’s pieces apart is the complete absence of arrogance that one might, perhaps, expect from someone of his eminence; instead there is simplicity and an amazing humility, both typical of Partho!&nbsp;<br /> <strong>— Mythili Bhusnurmath</strong>&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Consulting Editor, The Economic Times/ET Now &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I always read Dr Shome’s articles with great interest. The analysis and coverage of issues are greatly incisive and illuminating, reflecting his wide ranging knowledge of taxation and general economics across the world.&nbsp;<br /> <strong>— Sukumar Mukhopadhyay<br /> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>Ex-Member, Central Board of Excise and Customs, India</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Concrete inferences from economic and tax-related data and statistics for formulating easy and workable reform measures come naturally from the writings of Dr Shome. His thoughts are always solution-oriented and this is why his writings and reports have succeeded in making immense contribution to India’s taxation reforms.&nbsp;<br /> <strong>— Santosh Tiwari<br /> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>Economist and Journalist, The Financial Express</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Dr Shome’s articles always reflect an interesting combination of issues and perspectives: from global to Indian, and from economic to social, cultural, political, and historical. Though not an economist, I have always looked forward to reading his articles.&nbsp;<br /> <strong>&nbsp;— Carlos Moreno Leguizamon<br /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>University of Greenwich, London</p>

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

Parthasarathi Shome is Chairman, International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation (ITRAF), Bengaluru. Prior to that he was Adviser (Minister of State) to the Indian Finance Minister, and Chief Economist, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), United Kingdom. Earlier he was Chief of Tax Policy, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Professor of Economics, The American University, Washington DC. He received the highest civilian honour of the Brazilian Government, Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross, and the Jeanne S. Mattersdorf Award of the National Tax Association of America as “an outstanding student in the field of taxation and public finance” for his PhD thesis from Southern Methodist University.

Contents in Detail

  List of Tables and Figures 

 

  Preface 


I. Macroeconomy

 1. 2016 Through a Looking Glass

 

2. Is there Economics in the 2015 Land Acquisition Bill?

 

 3. GDP Estimation Methodology: Exasperating Improvements

 

 4. Inflation and Interest Rates: What is the Reserve Bank’s Policy?  

 

 5. Is 25 per cent of GDP from Manufacturing Robust Policy?  

 

 6. Having a Heart, Using the Head 

 

 7. Financial Market Behaviour 

 

 8. India’s Savings and Growth 

 

 

II. Fiscal Policy

 9. Ramifications of Budget 2016-17 

 

 10. 2015-16 Union Budget: The Must and the Must Not 

 

 11. 2015-16: A Union Budget with Sense and Sensibility 

 

 12. The Budget’s Massive Tax Effort 

 

 13. Year of Fiscal Consolidation 

 

 14. The Evolving Fiscal Stance 

 

 15. Dangers and Foibles of Tax Reform

 

 

III. Taxation Matters

 

 16. Taxation Research: Emergence and Progress 

 

 17. Taxation Research: Interpretative and Administrative Issues 

 

 18. India’s Effective Tax Ratio 

 

 19. A Time for Tax Reform 

 

 20. Tax Evasion as Corruption 

 

 

IV. Income Tax

 21. IT Department Statistics-I 

 

 22. I-T Department Statistics–II 

 

 23. Mnes’ Tax Avoidance and Overdealt Response 

 

 24. Corporate Tax Rate and Links to Incentives 

 

 25. Minimum Alternate Tax on Foreign Companies 

 

 26. Are Corporations an Enigma? 

 

 27. The Vodafone Affair: The Layout 

 

 28. The Vodafone Affair: The Deconstruction 

 

 

V. Indirect Tax

 29. Pushing Forward on GST

 

 30. GST: Remains of a Decade

 

 31. Tax Policy and Administration—A Conversation:
       If Petroleum is Out, It’s Not GST

 

32. An American VAT?

 

 

V. International Economic Relations

 

 33. Indo-UK Economic Relations After Brexit

 

 34. India’s Strategy—Both Japan and China?
      The Answer is No! 

 

 35. The India-Pakistan Phenomenon:
        Ready for Economic Deconstruction

 

 36. Developed and Developing Societies:
      A Behavioural Hypothesis 

 

 37. China Must Look Within 

 

 38. Solving the Euro Zone’s Problems  

 

 39. The Just-Emerging Asian Economy  

 

 40. Has the Euro Matter now been Solved?  

 

 41. Countdown to Cannes  

 

 42. Hola! Yo Soy America Latina 

 

 43. Volatile Times  

 

 44. Venice to Verona via Vittorio Veneto  

 

 45. Globalisation and G20  

 

 

VII. Socio-economic Policy

 46. Compassionate and Palliative Care 

 

 47. Supply Constraints for Private Sector Healthcare 

 

 48. Anatomy of Aswachh Bharat and Alchemy to Swachh 

 

 49. Indian Railways: Nostalgia and Reality

 

 50. A Sense of Independence 

 

 51. A Walk from Kolkata to London? 

 

 52. Children’s Condition: Wither Demographic Dividend? 

 

 53. West Bengal vs Tamil Nadu  

 

 54. Water Wars: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 

 

 

VIII. Political Economy

 55. A Socio-historical Perspective of Brexit 

 

 56. Vicissitudes of Modern Democracies  

 

 57. Indo-UK Economic History in Space Age  

 

 58. Thoughts as Ideas 

 

 

IX. Newest Concerns

 59. Demonetisation: An (un) Necessary Evil?

 

 60. Ease of Doing Business (EDB) Cross-Country Indicators

 

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