Amendments to Finance Bill 2009, Notifications Finally Out in Open
WE reported the amendments to the Finance Bill, 2009 moved by the Finance Minister on the floor of Lok Sabha on Thursday. Though the corresponding notifications were finally issued by Board, the secret world of CBEC was hesitant is releasing these notifications to the outside world immediately. Probably they wanted to make them public only through their website. A symptom of bureaucratic pride in concealing the obvious. Are we crawling back to the days of the Raj? Anyway, when we got hold of the notifications we were in for some surprises.