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Revenue-earning depts should meet targets: CM

Revenue-earning depts should meet targets: CM

The Hindu · May 16, 2024

Jim Chalmers delivers 2024 budget speech – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · May 13, 2024

A reform window: On the GST trajectory

The overall GST trajectory should give the next government comfort to focus on much-needed reforms to the tax

The Hindu · Apr 2, 2024

OPINION - All models are wrong (except the Office for Budget Responsibility's Brexit forecasts)

"All models," the British statistician George Box observed, "are wrong, but some are useful." To which we now turn to the Office for Budget Responsibility, whose Brexit forecasts seem to be holding up remarkably well.

Evening Standard · Mar 14, 2024

Sanskrit University Budget 2024-25: Proposals to start Centre for Secular Studies, inter-university centres

A Centre for Secular Studies and inter-university centres in areas including languages, Humanities and Social Sciences are the key projects included in the Budget of the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit for the 2024-25 fiscal.

The Hindu · Mar 12, 2024

Why haven't you moved Himachal Pradesh HC against disqualification: SC asks disqualified MLAs

Himachal Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania had disqualified the six MLAs on the Congress’ plea for “defying” the party whip that required them to be present in the House and vote for the budget.

The Hindu · Mar 12, 2024

Tom Tugendhat urges rise in defence spending to 2.5% 'now' - but denies rift with Rishi Sunak

While Economic Secretary Bim Afolami says voters won’t be ‘bribed’ by pre-election budget giveaways

Evening Standard · Mar 11, 2024

Business leaders’ tourist tax fury is a gift for Starmer

City Comment: It’s not yet clear what Labour would do about the tourist tax, but retail bosses fed up with Sunak and Hunt have strarted turning to Starmer and Reeves for salvation

Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2024

Brexit hitting UK economy and damage set to worsen with new trade barriers, Budget watchdog warns

Impact of leaving EU raised by Office for Budget Responsibility in its detailed analysis of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget

Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2024

Westfield boss backs Labour amid 'utter disappointment' in Hunt's failure to scrap 'tourist tax' in Budget

Scott Parsons, chief operating officer, UK at French-owned Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, said it was ‘deeply frustrating’ that retail leaders have been ignored

Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2024