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FICCI urges government to lower corporate tax to 28% in Budget 2018-19

05 Jan 2018 Evaluate

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has urged the government to lower the corporate tax from 30 percent to 28 percent in the upcoming Union Budget 2018-19. It believed that such a move would help the Indian industry in meeting the challenges emanating from tax cuts by the Trump administration in the US and its outcome in other developing countries.

The Industry body has clarified that bringing the tax rate to 28 percent will be a good start and noted that the corporate sector would start becoming unproductive in the absence of the rate cut. It also said that in Budget 2016-17, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had promised to reduce the corporate tax to 25 percent over the next four years. However, he has not been able to cut the rates. Besides, it stated that in December 2017, Senate Republicans passed a sweeping overhaul of the US tax code in more than 30 years. It also said that the Senate approved the $1.5 trillion tax bill, which includes permanent tax breaks for corporations and temporary tax cuts for individuals, by a final vote of 51-48.

Regarding the prospects of economic growth, the chamber expects that India's economic growth will accelerate to 7.5 percent in the fiscal year 2018-19. Meanwhile, the government is scheduled to come out with the Budget for 2018-19 on February 1, which will also be the last regular Budget of the current government.

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