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Retrospective tax gone, industry must revive animal spirits: Tarun Bajaj

12 Aug 2021 Evaluate

Days after the Centre government withdrew the retrospective tax amendments that led to international arbitration, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said it was the government’s policy to provide a stable and predictable tax regime. He stated that robust tax revenues in the first quarter of the current fiscal were encouraging but urged industry to revive the ‘animal spirit’ as far as private investment is concerned.

He stated ‘This is now the government’s policy to give a stable and predictable tax regime. This emanates from 2019. We came up with lower tax rates for the corporate sector, and also lower taxes for new units that would be set up by 2023’. He added ‘So the whole idea is to give the corporate sector time to plan itself, and give it a stable tax regime so that you're able to decide on other things like, whether you want to invest, where you want to invest and how you want to invest. He asked industry to come forward to invest, manufacture, start services and tell the government about what it requires from it.

The government, last week, introduced the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, to withdraw retrospective tax demands made using a 2012 legislation on indirect transfer of Indian assets and also refund the amount paid in these cases without any interest. On industry’s demands for reduction of goods and services (GST) rates on certain items, Bajaj pointed out that the council would look at solutions to bring down the rates. It would take out certain items from the tax-exempt category and correct the inverted duty structure in the upcoming meetings.

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