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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
(1982-1985, Feb 2009-May 2009, May 2009-Continuing)

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is a prominent leader of India National Congress. He has...
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Digitalization of Pay TV should be a top priority: Vikram Kaushik

India Infoline News Service / 09:52 AM , Feb 24, 2010

VikramKaushik, Managing Director & CEO, Tata Sky Ltd. said,“Digitalization of the Pay TV sector should be a national priority.There should be an urgent rationalization of the tax burden on the DTHindustry which currently exceeds 50%! This means, consumers are payingmore than they should for digital TV services and the analog cableindustry that under-declares its connections and evades tax on amassive scale is being indirectly subsidized.


TheGovernment loses more than Rs.4500 crores of tax which should be comingto it from the cable industry every year. Secondly, the imposition ofCustoms duty on DTH set top boxes last year was short-sighted andserves no purpose except to increase prices and make us uncompetitive.The Government should also look at the early introduction of GST andthe subsuming of State Entertainment taxes under it, which is verycritical.”


Mr. Vikram Kaushik, Managing Director & CEO, Tata Sky Ltd

Janta's Expectations

Posted By: Vishal Mumbai   |  Mar 08, 2010 09:22 PM
No Doubt we have benefited much from new IT slabs....but believe me its gonna being shelled out from our [pockets thru different route....
Posted By: KAUSHIK GUIN KOLKATA   |  Mar 03, 2010 01:20 PM
SENSEX WILL TOUCH 20000
Posted By: k.mohan secunderabad   |  Feb 27, 2010 06:03 PM
Banking cannot be open to private sector. We have not learned from U.S. melt down. In A.P.alone , many private banks closed..........Charminar Bank...The great Global Trust Bank....to name a few.......the middle class lost money......kindly understand.......many middle class people commited suicide after the banks collepsed.....i am afraid history may repeat....
Posted By: Nitin sharma Mumbai   |  Feb 27, 2010 05:30 PM
No expectation from Congress. It is history repeating itself. They have always worked in the interest of Rich and elite group. Now the price of property will increase in another 3 years business will make huge profits. So if you want to have your share invest in share market in companies who will make huge profits and you will get your share of dividend and high stock price.
Posted By: Ritesh chennai   |  Feb 26, 2010 10:44 AM
please increase exemption limit for income tax.
Posted By: Suman Baroda   |  Feb 26, 2010 09:51 AM
Reduce service tax to 5% & remove VAT.
Posted By: stileslesl stileslesl   |  Feb 26, 2010 07:42 AM
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Posted By: Uma MageshWaran Chennai   |  Feb 26, 2010 05:56 AM
basically disagree with the fundamental premise that there should be accelerated withdrawal of the stimulus. Things are still very uncertain at the global level. So, I think the withdrawal should be gradual. The big problem really is the financing of the budget. The bond market, in fact, is very concerned about the liquidity situation. From what the RBI has said the net government borrowing this year will be the same as last year, and the gross borrowings because of the redemptions will be much larger this year. The market simply cannot take that amount (necessitated by the existing fiscal deficit) of bond issuance and we don’t have formats like open market operations. So the financing of the budget might sort of force the government to take certain decisions that perhaps are not necessarily the best for the economy. I would rather that they went in for a very gradual withdrawal of stimulus, and get the RBI to help in financing. I think this is a strategy that a lot of central banks are still committed to. Like in the US, where they had initially said that they would withdraw the monetization programme, they have kept the options open. Bank of England is doing the same thing. I don’t think we should fall into the trap of decoupling our policies from the G7 world and rebonding with a sort of emerged market strategy. Gud Luck to Finance Minister...
Posted By: Uma MageshWaran Chennai   |  Feb 26, 2010 05:53 AM
>VAT should be increase to gain more Tax Revenues, >Continuing Stimulus for Sectors like Textiles, exports etc, >Keen on Double Digit Inflation by Increasing key rates to control Money Supply, >The 5.5 per cent fiscal deficit will essentially be through disinvestment, >More & more Funds to Agricultural and Irrigation sectors, >No more income Tax changes, I>ncrease in Corporate Tax in Profitable Sectors to curb revenue Deficit,
Posted By: mehul surat   |  Feb 25, 2010 02:30 PM
budget must be people friendly the main focus should be on taxes as inflation is at life time high there must be some releif to common man and taxes should not be burden to the pocket of citizens. Long term capital gains should be abolished there must be some hope to the investors as they have seem some of the worst times in their lives.