Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman with minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur (left) in Parliament befo…Read More
NEW DELHI: It was during a quick exchange, while moving from one meeting to another in the finance ministry corridors, that principal economic adviser Sanjeev Sanyal brought up the possibility of a tax charter being part of the Budget with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The argument was that while the government had acted to assure taxpayers, particularly businesses, that they would not be subjected to harassment, discussion of a “trust deficit” just would not go away. Dodgy o