EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Where are the Laws and Morality?

Article by Deepali Shukla In an attempt to prevent illegal smuggling of migrants and their unchecked arrivals into European Union (hereinafter EU), the German Chancellor Angela Merkel brokered the controversial EU-Turkey refugee deal. It lays down that all irregular Syrian migrants (i.e. those migrating without the necessary authorization or documents required under immigration regulations of the destination country) who will arrive in Greece after March … Continue reading EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Where are the Laws and Morality?

GAAR: The Way Ahead

By: Suhas Sagar The field of taxation has always been witness to the eternal cat-and-mouse game between taxpayers and tax authorities. Nowhere is this contest more pronounced than in India. As taxpayers keep devising newer ways of mitigating their tax liability, the tax authorities respond with their own weapons – retrospective amendments and high pitched tax assessments displaying a rather adversarial state of mind. The … Continue reading GAAR: The Way Ahead