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Assocham opposes govt’s move of changing financial year from April-March

11 Jul 2016 Evaluate

Opposing the government’s move to adopt a new financial year by changing it from April-March, industry body, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has said that the move to change the financial year will cause a "huge avoidable disruption" at a big cost to business. It has argued that said change in the financial year will mean a change in the entire infrastructure of accounting software, taxation systems and human resource practices which will involve huge costs.

The industry body further said that, 'In any case, different countries follow different financial years and there is no standard accounting practice for the world. So, change to any other calendar would not result in India's aligning itself with the world.” Besides, even within the domestic economy, there is no solid reason for the unnecessary change. Elaborating his view further, Assocham said the existing 'fiscal year is even co-terminus with the academic years' in schools and universities. Henceforth the sudden change would create unnecessary hurdles and bureaucratic and systemic delays as at this point of time, India cannot allow any such disruptions.

Recently, the government has set up a four-member committee headed by former Chief Economic Adviser Shankar Acharya to examine the desirability and feasibility of having a new financial year. It has been asked to submit its report by December 31. As per the government, the current financial year does not allow budget makers to make an assessment of the monsoon does not hold well. Commenting on this Assocham said that even if the fiscal year is changed to January-December and the Budget is presented sometime in October, the monsoon effect would be clear only for the running year. But then, the Budget is done for the next year for which dependence would continue on the weather forecast.

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