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Challenges of levying taxes on digital services

03/07/2020

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Recently, the United States declared that its trade representative will pursue an investigation under section 301 of the Trade Act, 1974, against Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK for implementing digital services tax. The investigations come at a time when ...

Estimating customer complaints using Twitter feeds

03/07/2020

(Co-authored with Vimal Balasubramaniam, Kusan Biswas, and Mithila A. Sarah)
 
The lockdown that began in the last week in March 2020 has affected people from all walks of life. Frictions faced by several sectors and stakeholders such as essential service suppliers, farms, factories, migrant labourers have been widely reported ...

Holding their breath: Indian firms in an interruption of revenue

03/07/2020

(Co-authored with Anjali Sharma)
 
India is in a state of lockdown with only essential goods and services getting exemption. This has given a teachable moment on the role of liquid cash in corporate financial policy.
 
Most firms will see a varying degree of a revenue shock. Expenses such ...

Isolation : A weak link in Indian public health

03/07/2020

  1. There are four parts to the public health response to an epidemic: 1) Trace, 2) Test, 3) Isolate, and 3) Treat. Once someone is infected, tracing involves identifying, listing and following up with all the people who have come in contact with the infected person to ensure that they do ...

Applicability of the IBC to public sector enterprises: The case of Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd

03/07/2020

(Co-authored with Sudipto Banerjee and Karthik Suresh)
 
Since the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) in 2016, the National Companies Law Tribunal (NCLT) has been admitting insolvency cases against public sector enterprises (for example, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Co. Ltd., the Northern Power Distribution Co ...