Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India is set to become an ‘extremely attractive’ country to do business, on the back of greater digitisation and formalisation of financial activities and businesses. He also said that the country is growing at a reasonable rate, integration of the formal with the informal economy as well as structural changes are taking place, while the tax base itself is expanding.
Jaitley said the ongoing process of digitisation was a result of Aadhaar scheme coupled with financial inclusion, post demonetisation followed by the massive exercise on the improvement in the digital eco-payment system as well as the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017. He also pointed out that a lot of transaction, that took place through the cash economy, is today getting increasingly digitalised and going through the banking system.
However, Finance Minister acknowledged short-term challenges for the country in implementing strategic initiatives such as demonetisation and the GST. But he also said ‘I have not the least doubt in my mind that the medium to long term, this is bound to produce long-term returns as far as the Indian economy is concerned’. He further highlighted that India has improved ranking in the World Bank's ease of doing business index as the country jumped up 30 notches into the top 100 rankings of the index.
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