Income Tax Bill – Opportunities Ignored – Weapons Sharpened

The Income Tax Bill 2025 was a great opportunity to bring real changes to the tax system of the country. The top taxpayers in the country are actors and not the corporate richest and...

Read more March 10, 2025 at 10:12 am Thomas Franco

Tipping the Scales: Why We Need to Tax the Ultra-Rich Tipping the Scales

An article series published in Deccan Herald, curated in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Accountability.

Read more November 27, 2023 at 9:27 am CFA

Black hole of public finance: Unequal fiscal burden on citizens

73% of the wealth generated in India in 2017 went to the richest 1%, while the poorest half of the population saw only a 1% increase in their wealth.

Read more January 11, 2023 at 3:55 pm Suchak Patel

The Fiscal Challenges of the Realization of Workers’ Rights: Do They Exist?

For the past 36 years, banks' pensions have not been upgraded. No social security, like universal basic income, is considered. The vast majority of unorganised sector workers (94%) do not have access to provident...

Read more December 23, 2022 at 4:43 pm Thomas Franco

Primer on Wealth Inequality in India

Several overlapping crises afflict the world today – the pandemic and the health crises, an uneven economic recovery and impending recession, the climate emergency, and the question of survival of democracies and institutions with...

Read more December 21, 2022 at 6:03 pm Ishan Anand and Anjana Thampi

Recession – What India should do?

Contrary to the claims of the Finance Minister, India is in recession. Even the RBI agrees. Inequality is on the rise. From jobless growth, we are in 'job loss' growth. Study after study confirms...

Read more November 29, 2022 at 1:42 pm Thomas Franco

मालदार पे मलाई टैक्स | Tax The Top | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

आज पूरा देश आर्थिक दबाव से जूझ रहा है। सरकार खुद सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की कंपनियों की संपत्ति पट्टे पर दे रही है या बेच रही है।