"Chapter 1: Introduction Part 1: Income Tax
Chapter 2: Income Tax: Introduction
Chapter 3: Income from House Property
Chapter 4: Income from Business and Profession
Chapter 5: Capital Assets and Depreciation
Chapter 6: Business Income: Special Provisions
Chapter 7: Capital and Revenue Expenditure
Chapter 8: Capital Gains
Chapter 9: Capital Gains: Securities
Chapter 10: Capital Gain: Depreciable Assets
Chapter 11: Income from Salary
Chapter 12: Income from Other Sources
Chapter 13: Aggregation and Carry Forward of Losses
Chapter 14: Exemptions, Deductions and Rebates
Chapter 15: Wealth Tax and Other Themes in Income Tax
Part 2: Indirect Taxation
Chapter 16: Introduction to Indirect Taxation
Chapter 17: Sale, Goods and Sales Tax
Chapter 18: Sale of Goods: Value Added Tax
Chapter 19: Central Sales Tax
Chapter 20: Service Tax
Chapter 21: Central Excise Tax
Chapter 22: Central Excise Tax: Valuation of Duty
Chapter 23: Custom Duty

"Business Taxation by Pathak gives a cogent and comprehensive introduction to the field of taxation. The book facilitates the reader’s understanding of the concepts and principles of each sub-field of taxation. The narrative style of the book encourages the readers to engage with the subject, and discover the principles by and for themselves. Written in a lucid manner, it will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in taxation, particularly managers. The current textbooks in the market have procedural approach and hence are suitable for specialized courses like CA, CS, CFA, MFC etc. Our book has a generalist approach which is more appropriate for the MBA students
Narrative style of textbook encourages the readers to engage with the subject, and discover the principles by and for them themselves.