Uttam Gupta

 Uttam Gupta Roberto Azevedo, Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), who was recently in Delhi to explore and understand India's perspective on issues for taking up in the 11th WTO ministerial scheduled for 11th to 14th…
Read More...

Uttam Gupta On 3rd August, 2016, Rajya Sabha (RS) passed the 122nd constitution amendment bill (already cleared by Lok Sabha last year) paving the way for the Goods and Services Tax (GST). This is a 'transformative' reform that will…
Read More...

Uttam Gupta In its previous incarnation under A B Vajpayee, the BJP-led NDA dispensation (1998-2004) had vigorously pursued "strategic" disinvestment of Union government's shares in public sector undertakings (PSUs), some of the high…
Read More...

Uttam Gupta Early last month, the Narendra Modi government revised the India-Mauritius DTAA (Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement) to withdraw exemption from tax on capital gains made by foreign investors from sale of shares of Indian…
Read More...

Uttam Gupta About a fortnight ago, the Income Tax (I-T) Department sent a reminder notice to the UK-based Vodafone Group Plc to pay Rs 14,300 crore in tax dues and threatened to seize the assets in case of non-payment. Foreign investors…
Read More...

Uttam Gupta In a brazen display of 'might is right' in the just concluded World Trade Organisation's (WTO) 10th ministerial meeting at Nairobi, Kenya between 15th-19th December, the developed countries led by the US and the EU literally…
Read More...