NASSCOM Submits Pre-Budget Memorandum 2020

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NASSCOM Submits Pre-Budget Memorandum 2020

Indrajeet Sircar

@IndrajeetSircar

December 16, 2019

Public Policy

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Earlier today, NASSCOM shared its Pre-Budget Memorandum with the Ministry of Finance, at the first pre-budget consultation on the Digital Economy, ahead of the Union Budget 2020.

The Memorandum, prepared on the basis of inputs received from our members, targets increased competitiveness and growth as the key outcomes.

The full version of NASSCOM’s Pre-Budget Memorandum 2020 is attached.

Key Message

Target a glide path to become a low tax jurisdiction to attract investment in an increasingly competitive world – both in services and manufacturing

In a global competitive landscape, India has three distinct advantages – talent, scale and cost competitiveness.

Compared to developed economies of the world, India has always had a comparative advantage in terms of costs. However, its level of cost competitiveness is increasingly falling short in the current competitive landscape that includes countries like China which already have a huge cost advantage in manufacturing and are significantly investing in building competitiveness in services. Equally, smaller and comparable economies like Mexico, Vietnam, Philippines are equally or more cost competitive than India.

Nonetheless, India’s broad-based talent advantage and the ability of Indian companies to rapidly scale up continue to be India’s unique competitive advantage.

But as of today, and despite its talent and scale-based advantages, smaller economies benefiting from their cost competitiveness, collectively, take away a large share of the business which can be part of India’s GDP. This issue has become increasingly relevant in the context of high-end (high value) business offerings.

Therefore, in order to emerge as a leader in this landscape by leveraging its two distinct advantages – talent and scale, India will need to majorly boost its cost competitiveness.

The key ingredients of the cost competitiveness are – land, capital, taxes. Therefore, this document is focused on taxation and the measures that may be undertaken to use tax policy to drive India’s global competitiveness with a focus on technology sector. The suggestions made in this document are in line with this objective and are encapsulated under the following six broad themes:

Export Promotion
Incentivizing R&D
Incentivizing Talent and Skilling
Measures to Support Start-ups
Easing Taxation Regime for the Digital Economy
Promoting Ease of Doing Business (EODB)

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