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Govt likely to announce sops for SEZs in Foreign Trade Policy

14 Jul 2014 Evaluate

In order to attract major investments in the country’s special economic zones (SEZs), the government may announce sops in Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), expected in the next few weeks.  The FTP governs all exports and imports related activities in India and primarily aims at enhancing the country's exports. The five-year FTP (2009-14) ended on March 31 and the new government will introduce new FTP for the period 2014-19.

Commerce Ministry stated that though the government has not announced any sops for SEZs in budget 2014-15, the ministry will try to convince government to restore tax benefits for the zones in the Foreign Trade Policy. Commerce Ministry has planned to make a fresh pitch for excluding the developers from paying the Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) and Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) in new FTP. MAT, which was imposed in budget 2011-12 on SEZs despite making no change in the SEZ Act, has remained the major factor responsible for dwindling investors’ confidence. Under this section, every company (SEZs) is liable to pay a MAT at the rate of 18.5 percent, plus applicable surcharge and cess on book profits. 

Commerce Ministry argued that with the prevailing unfavorable tax regime like MAT, DDT in the country, no investor would like to set up a unit in the SEZ which in turn will impair capital formation in the domestic economy. SEZs contribute about 30 per cent to India’s exports, employ an estimated 13 lakh workers across the country and have attracted investments worth Rs 3 lakh crore. As on December 2013, India has sanctioned 175 SEZs, largest in the world.

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