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Obama’s measures unlikely to hit Indian business, jobs
May 05, 2009 10:18 PM IST
IT professionals in Bangalore fearing US President Barack Obama’s tax proposals can breathe easy. Obama cited Bangalore as an example in his Monday speech explaining the benefits of his new tax proposal. But the proposal, if implemented, will not have much impact on the Indian industry. HT Correspondent.
IT professionals in Bangalore fearing US President Barack Obama’s tax proposals can breathe easy. Obama cited Bangalore as an example in his Monday speech explaining the benefits of his new tax proposal. But the proposal, if implemented, will not have much impact on the Indian industry.
Reason: the proposal hinges on tax rate differentials between the US and other countries and this differential in the case of India is just 1.1 per cent.
As per current laws, a US-based multinational company can avoid paying taxes on profits it makes abroad until it brings the money back to the US.
According to an industry analyst, Obama’s proposal means that these multinationals will have to pay taxes on the profits earned from income through overseas subsidiaries --- even if the profits are not repatriated back to the US.
In India, US companies that earn profits are subject to a tax rate of 33.9
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India Inc Welcomes Back Obama
<div>Fresh from a decisive re-election win, President Barack Obama has little time to savour victory, faced as he is with urgent economic and fiscal challenges and a still-divided Congress capable of blocking his every move.<br /><br />But in India, the sentiment was mostly positive. Business leaders said on 7 November that re-election of Barack Obama as the US President will be good for global economic recovery and expressed the hope that issues on outsourcing to India will be resolved. The outsourcing chiefs on the other hand kept their fingers crossed that Barack Obama would take a less hawkish stance on the industry during his second term, even as they cheered his re-election as a possible boost to the US economy.<br /><br />Industry body Ficci said it "expects the new administration to set the US economy firmly on the path of revival and robust growth. This would be of great significance for the world economy and Indian exporters should be looking at a sustained rise in demand in the US".<br /><br />Nasscom, the industry body of software services companies which earn up to 85 per cent of revenue from the US and European markets, said opposition to outsourcing in the US is actuall
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