Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing refers to a set of standards for a company’s behaviour used by socially conscious investors to screen potential investments. Environmental criteria consider how a company safeguards the environment, including corporate policies addressing climate change, for example. Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where...

The Finance Act 2023 inserted Section 43B(h), which specifies that any sum owed to Micro, Small & Enterprises (MSME), for goods supplied or services given, may be deducted in the same year if the actual payment is made within the deadline stipulated by the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006. Section 43B(h)...

One Step ahead and 2 steps backwards. Why? This principle of the dilemma is equally applicable in the tax mechanism also. The same error/ fault was persisting in the regime of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) for certain categories of taxpayers. But now, by inserting section 197 related to the Income-tax Form 13, no more...