Impact of corporate tax cut to be felt in coming years: Anurag Singh Thakur

15 Sep 2020 Evaluate

Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur has said that the steep cut in corporate tax rate made India a globally competitive and favoured destination for investment and the impact of this landmark reform would be felt in the coming years. He noted that in September 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the lowering of the base corporate tax rate to 22 percent from 30 percent for companies that do not seek exemptions and reduced the rate for some new manufacturing companies to 15 percent from 25 percent. He said this has enabled the corporate tax rates in India to be amongst the lowest in the world.

As per the estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) for April-June quarter of fiscal year 2020-21 (Q1FY21), the minister said the real GDP in India contracted by 23.9 percent as against a 5.2 percent growth in the same quarter previous fiscal. He said with the phased unlocking of the Indian economy since June 1, 2020, high-frequency economic indicators like PMI Manufacturing, index of eight core industries, E-way bills, Kharif sowing, power consumption, railway freight, cargo traffic and passenger vehicle sales have recovered and indicate growing convergence with previous year's activity levels.

Thakur further said that structural reforms have been announced as part of the Atmanirbhar Package, which include deregulation of the agricultural sector, change in the definition of MSMEs, new PSU policy, commercialisation of coal mining, higher FDI limits in defence and space sector.

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