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Government may provide tax incentives to software exporters in DTC: Sibal

08 Oct 2011 Evaluate
The government is considering to offering tax incentives to the software exporters after the introduction of the Direct Taxes Code. The Telecom and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on October 7 said that government may consider offering tax incentives to software exporters once the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) is implemented next year.

The Information Technology companies and ITeS firms use to get tax incentives in the Software Technology Parks of India scheme, however, which expired in last financial year. On the issue of the providing tax incentives to IT firms under DTC, Kapil Sibal said, “We will certainly try and do something.”

While introducing the Draft National Policy on Information Technology, 2011, the minister had said that the government envisaged the country’s software industry to generate nearly $300 billion revenue by 2020 compare to the current $89 billion.  Currently, IT firms generate around four-fifth revenue comes from the exports. The draft policy seeks to provide support growth of indigenous market.

The draft policy also seeks to generate pool of additional 10 million skilled man-powers by 2020. Currently the Indian IT and ITeS sector provide employments to around 2.5 million skilled people. The policy also suggests fiscal incentives to attract investment in this IT sector in Tier-2 and 3 cities. The National Policy on Information Technology also targets to provide fiscal incentives to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-up Venture in key industries verticals for the adoption of IT.

 “As most of the IT companies are located in big cities like Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai, the policy will now look at expanding to tier 2 and tier 3 cities as well,” Sibal said. The policy aims to strengthen and enhance India’s position as a global IT hub and to use IT as an engine for rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth in the national economy, Kapil Sibal said.


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