Arun Jaitley

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday expressed hope that demonetisation defencewill help increase government revenue and lower fiscal deficit, leading to higher expenditure on defence and rural infrastructure. With the junking of the…

With Finance Minister Arun Jaitley all set to present the budget for 2017-18 on February 1, 2017, India will again debate if a 150-year-old colonial-era tradition of a financial year that runs from April-March should be discarded and…

With "turf issue" over tax payer jurisdiction continuing to clog GST Council deliberations, the Goods and Services Tax rollout could be delayed by a quarter to July 1 as industry would require time to prepare itself, experts said. The…

The government has made absolutely no concession in the way tax authorities deal with political parties, and they will be treated the same way as other offenders if they violate the law, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said during the ET…