Moneycontrol News Archive

Reverse mortgage products benefits banking sector 

28th February, 2007 22:02

Kalpana Morparia, JT MD, ICICI Bank is of the view that the reverse mortgage products will again bring more innovation into banking sector.

Is Budget unfavourable to corporates? 

28th February, 2007 21:45

So a mundane Budget it seems - almost non-sensational. But wait, the devil is in the details and the details don't quite favour corporate India. CNBC-TV18 reports

Budget's impact on venture capital industry

28th February, 2007 21:38

The Finance Bill, 2007 proposes to restrict the pass through status for Venture Capital Funds (‘VCFs’)/ Venture Capital Companies (‘VCCs’) to only income from inve

Infrastructure Sector–Tinkering with tax incentives

28th February, 2007 21:34

The 11th Five year plan 2007-12 estimates the need for investments in infrastructure at a staggering amount of Rs 14,50,000 crore (USD 320 billion).

Back to square one via ESOP tax

28th February, 2007 21:25

India Inc, which was demanding the abolition of Fringe Benefit Tax, or FBT, has been taken by surprise. Employees Stock Options will now be subject to FBT. The gov

Salient changes introduced in Service tax legislation

28th February, 2007 21:17

The Finance Minister has proved his political skills by refraining from the temptation of increasing basic service tax rate at the time when so much heat is create

Is the FM pumping money into a leaky pipe? 

28th February, 2007 21:15

The budget is out. But have the problems been solved? Has the FM walked the tight rope effectively? Will the FM reach the 1.5% fiscal deficit target in the next on

Budget's impact across sectors

28th February, 2007 20:51

Here's a sum up of the Union Budget's impact across sectors.

Budget 2007, a non-event from mkt and corporate perspective

28th February, 2007 20:32

According to experts, markets are a bit oversold and Budget 2007 was a non-event from market and corporate perspective. From the market point of view the budget wa

Tax rates offer marginal relief

28th February, 2007 20:31

The Union Budget has kept the tax rates unchanged, while there has been a marginal relief in terms of enhancement of the basic exemption limit by Rs 10,000 across

Colourless, odourless and tasteless budget

28th February, 2007 20:09

Only a couple of days ago Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav showed us a vision of dedicated freight corridor, high speed trains, harnessing the potential o

Positively impacted sectors

28th February, 2007 19:54

The positives were the emphasis sought to be put on agricultural and rural development, as well as education, which would give a long term boost to the growth of t

Negatively impacted sectors

28th February, 2007 19:44

The negative surprises in the budget were for IT sector with MAT, dual excise duty on cement along with stock options or dividend distribution tax.

Budget 07 and ESOPs taxability

28th February, 2007 19:34

ESOP’s were taxable only at the time of sale of shares. Now, ESOPs qualify as Fringe Benefit Tax.

Union Budget, what's that?

28th February, 2007 19:24

For any beast of the stock market, there is one simple takeaway from this year's Budget: From next time, learn to ignore it, its just not worth the hype.