Parliamentary Standing Committee For Finance

A Parliamentary panel has said that Indian institutes of accounting akin to IITs and IIMs should be set up across the country

A Parliamentary panel has said that due to some "lag impact" of the Coronavirus pandemic, there could be a rise in bad loans

A Parliamentary panel has asked the government that it should publish an annual report on how it has managed public assets

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Affairs has directed the Union Finance Ministry to make separate reports on black money filed by three research institutes -- the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, National Institute of Financial Management and the National Council of Applied Economic Research -- available to the publi...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in its draft report has urged the government to bring data protection legislation before Parliament at the earliest.

Replying to queries from members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance on demonetisation and its fallout, Urjit Patel said counting of cancelled Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes goes on continuously for six days a week.

To curb possible diversion of ponzi proceeds, a parliamentary panel has asked the government to streamline the regulatory regime for multi-state cooperative societies and also come out with a legislation for chit funds.

The government has been asked by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to provide a statutory backing to Aadhaar at the earliest and take immediate steps to address issues pertaining to the project.

A Parliamentary panel opposed on Friday new bank licences to corporate houses and voiced concerns over the discretionary power vested with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for applying 'fit and proper' criteria for deciding on applications.

BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on finance, had demanded that the Bill with this clause be referred back to the standing committee as it was introduced after the committee had submitted its report on the Bill. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had ruled out sending the Bill to the ...

Ending its nearly two-month-old boycott, BJP members today attended the meeting of Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G and said they would continue to press for summoning of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as witnesses.

India Inc will be looking towards the Budget to provide a credible plan on bringing down fiscal deficit.

It suggested there should be three tax slabs at 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 30 per cent for personal income tax.

In what could be dramatic cuts in personal tax rates, the Parliamentary standing committee on finance headed by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has recommended minimum tax exemption limit to be set at Rs 5 lakh per annum. For someone who earns Rs 10,00,000 per annum or higher, the tax rate would be cut by more than half. Under the current tax regime, suc...

A Parliamentary panel has said that Indian institutes of accounting akin to IITs and IIMs should be set up across the country

A Parliamentary panel has said that due to some "lag impact" of the Coronavirus pandemic, there could be a rise in bad loans

A Parliamentary panel has asked the government that it should publish an annual report on how it has managed public assets

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Affairs has directed the Union Finance Ministry to make separate reports on black money filed by three research institutes -- the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, National Institute of Financial Management and the National Council of Applied Economic Research -- available to the publi...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in its draft report has urged the government to bring data protection legislation before Parliament at the earliest.

Replying to queries from members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance on demonetisation and its fallout, Urjit Patel said counting of cancelled Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes goes on continuously for six days a week.

To curb possible diversion of ponzi proceeds, a parliamentary panel has asked the government to streamline the regulatory regime for multi-state cooperative societies and also come out with a legislation for chit funds.

The government has been asked by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to provide a statutory backing to Aadhaar at the earliest and take immediate steps to address issues pertaining to the project.

A Parliamentary panel opposed on Friday new bank licences to corporate houses and voiced concerns over the discretionary power vested with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for applying 'fit and proper' criteria for deciding on applications.

BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on finance, had demanded that the Bill with this clause be referred back to the standing committee as it was introduced after the committee had submitted its report on the Bill. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had ruled out sending the Bill to the ...

Ending its nearly two-month-old boycott, BJP members today attended the meeting of Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G and said they would continue to press for summoning of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as witnesses.

India Inc will be looking towards the Budget to provide a credible plan on bringing down fiscal deficit.

It suggested there should be three tax slabs at 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 30 per cent for personal income tax.

In what could be dramatic cuts in personal tax rates, the Parliamentary standing committee on finance headed by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has recommended minimum tax exemption limit to be set at Rs 5 lakh per annum. For someone who earns Rs 10,00,000 per annum or higher, the tax rate would be cut by more than half. Under the current tax regime, suc...