Gordhan's maiden effort Oct 29, 2009
There is also a real risk of increased taxes, particularly indirect taxation via instruments such as the implementation of the envisaged National Health Insurance. The combined effect will retard recovery in consumer spending and thus the economy at large. (iAfrica.com)
Left gets in early on Henry tax review Jul 31, 2009
The resolution calls for the Henry report, due at the end of the year, to strike a balance between business taxation, indirect taxation and personal tax ;;while ensuring government has sufficient resources to build a good society. It said the Government;s decisions on tax changes proposed by the Henry panel ;;must meet the needs of society and not the ideologically based demands for lower business taxation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Arvind Virmani, Chief Economic Advisor, Finance Ministry Jul 3, 2009
Ushering in GST will improve indirect taxation- Interviews-Opinion-The Economic Times ... Ushering in GST will improve indirect taxation3 Jul 2009, 0118 hrs IST, G Ganapathy Subramaniam & Dheeraj Tiwari, ET Now. (India Times)
Its time for some realism regarding climate change Mar 27, 2009
Thank God wrote on Mar 22, 2009 3:30 AM:" I wish your column could be disseminated to all of the brainless so-called "mainstream media" morons who keep spouting the Chicken Little garbage. Anthropogenic global warming is a complete and total fraud. You have morons like Obama who want to use such a flawed theory to raise trillions of dollars in indirect taxation and the lying "scientists" who get their grants paid for by the same moron. It's a huge Ponzi scheme which is utterly despicable. ".... (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
