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Corporate tax cut is positive development for power sector: ICRA

01 Oct 2019 Evaluate

Rating agency ICRA has said government’s recent announcement of lowering corporate tax rate is a positive development for the power sector, as it will allow the power generators with cost plus power purchase agreements (PPAs) to pass on the lower tax benefit to the power distribution utilities (discoms). The government on September 20 slashed the income tax rate for companies by almost 10 percentage points to 25.17 percent and offered a lower rate to 17.01 percent for new manufacturing firms to boost economic growth rate from a six-year low by incentivising investments to help create jobs.

According to ICRA’s estimates, the extent of benefit that would accrue to discoms from power generation and transmission segments, mainly from central and state utilities, will be about Rs 2500 crore annually. The benefit so accrued to discoms in turn would enable them to lower their cost of supply and hence, reduce the gap between average tariff and cost of power supply by about 3 paise per unit sold at all India level. The agency however said that the extent of reduction in gap for discoms would vary across states depending on the mix of cost plus and bid-based PPAs and share of supply from central sector companies. Within the overall annual energy generation of 1250 billion units (1 unit =1 kwh) in FY’2019, about 67 per cent is cost-plus tariff based predominantly from central and state sector utilities.

The agency mentioned that central government entities like NTPC, NLC India, Damodar Valley Corporation, Power Grid Corporation of India and NHPC have cost plus tariff structures, leading to pass through of lower tax incidence to discoms. Also, it added state-owned power generating companies and power transmission companies, would be benefited from the lower tax incidence, which would be passed on to discoms under the regulated cost-plus tariff structure.

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