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Leasing industry's growth may get slowed with GST rate of 28%: FIDC Director General

16 Aug 2017 Evaluate

Raising worries over imposition of 28% Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate on the leasing industry, Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) has said that this rate is high for the Rs 5,500 crore capital goods leasing sector as compared to the earlier 5% to 15% tax rate and may slow the  overall growth rate of the industry.

FIDC director general Mahesh Thakkar, while noting the impacts of higher GST rate, said that it leads to higher working capital requirement at any point of time along with increment in the cost of leasing equipment. In view of this, Thakkar suggested that the government should actively consider not bracketing the capital goods in the same GST bracket as luxury goods and sin goods.

Thakkar further pointed that in gross domestic capital formation, the leasing industry’s contribution is less than 2%, while on the global average; it is 10% and said that a lower GST rate will help increasing share of leasing in gross capital formation.

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