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Indian may bring more services in tax bracket

In order to raise revenues the government is likely to bring more services in the tax net and may introduce a negative list in the forthcoming Budget.

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India’s per capita income grew by 15.6 %

India’s per capita income grew by 15.6 per cent to Rs 53,331 per annum in 2010-11, crossing the half-a-lakh rupees mark for the first time, according to government data.

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India in a better position to tackle slowdown

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) think India is expected to withstand the latest global slowdown better than most countries, if it ensures rising income levels for the working class and enough jobs for a growing working-age population.

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Adidas will launch $1 shoe in India.

Adidas, the German sportswear and equipment maker, is to launch a shoe costing one dollar a pair in India, boss Herbert Hainer said, despite the failure of a similar venture in Bangladesh.

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Super rich Indians own wealth worth $ 945 billion

According to the study by Wealth X, a global wealth intelligence and prospecting company, India has 8,200 UHNW individuals, whose combined wealth amounts to a whopping $945 billion.

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Indian family businesses deliver higher returns in India

A report by Swiss lender Credit Suisse says that India leads the list of the Asian countries where family businesses have delivered higher returns in the past decade among the 10 leading economies, says According to the report, family businesses have given a staggering 261 per cent cumulative return in the past 10 years to the Asian economies, outperforming local benchmarks in seven out of the 10 markets studied in the continent.

“India has the highest percentage of family businesses in Asia with as many as 67 per cent the highest in 10 Asian countries that were surveyed,” says the Asian Family Businesses report released by Credit Suisse here today.

“Out of the 983 listed Indian companies, as many as 663 are family businesses, and they account for half of all corporate hirings, concentrated in the consumer discretionary, consumer staples and consumer healthcare sectors,” the report says.

The report observed that fixed asset investment from family businesses has consistently grown stronger versus non-family businesses since 2006. However, the Indian family businesses that managed a 15.8 per cent total return CAGR from 2000 to 2010, underperformed the broader market, which delivered 19.3 per cent CAGR over the last decade, it notes.

Most Asian countries preferred to be in the traditional sectors while India was one of the three countries that witnessed higher concentration of technology-related family businesses due to the technology-driven industrial structure in these economies.
Source – PTI

R&D Operating cost is 25% less in India

Operating cost of MNC research development (R&D) centres in India is 25 per cent lower compared to China, according to a report unveiled here today by global advisory firm Zinnov Management Consulting.

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India, US join hands to deal with inflation

Two powerful nations Indian and US agreed to cooperation in dealing with global challenges like inflation and volatility in capital flows, besides strengthening bilateral trade and investment.

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NRI returning home, MNCs spoilt for choice

Near about 60,000 employees, all NRIs, returned to India in the year 2010. This year more number of NRIs is expected to come back.

Non-resident Indian (NRI) professionals are starting to come back to home and multinational companies are now spoiled for choice in picking from the cream of attractive resource pool of India, says a MyHiringClub.com website survey.

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India to have world’s largest solar plant in Maharashtra

In a bid to fight shortage of electricity, the state government of Maharashtra is planning to set up a solar power plant, which will be the largest solar farm in the world.

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Indian Per capita income for 2010-11 jumps to Rs 54,835

As per the data released by the Indian government, the Per Capita income of the Indians in the year 2010-11, increased by 17.9 percent i.e Rs. 54,835 as against Rs 46,492 in the previous year.

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Liberation in FDI policy to improve GDP

Planning Commission of India, suggested that in order to improve the
country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), there should be liberation in
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

To boost the performance of the weak performing manufacturing sector,
the Planning Commission of India called for taking liberating measure
in FDI policy as an effort to boost the Gross Domestic Product.

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Untimely withdrawal of PF attracts tax

As reported in Financial Express, the provident fund (PF) is one of the most popular retirement benefit schemes in India. It is also considered as a tax-saving investment for contributions (employer up to 12% of basic salary and employee up to overall deduction of R1 lakh) made towards an approved/recognised PF, the year-on-year accruals and the amount received on maturity from such funds is tax exempt.

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Biometric PAN cards to be issued by the gov.

The government has decided to issue biometric PAN cards to taxpayers across the country to weed out the problem of duplicate and fake ones.

The decision was taken recently by the Finance Ministry and it comes in the wake of a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that asked the Income Tax department to ensure that a single tax payer is not issued multiple cards.

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Tata, the best Indian brand

In today’s market scenario customer is the king. He has a choice of selecting a product, brand from multiple choices available.

In order to win the consumer companies and brands are going out of the way to convince them.

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