To promote growth, just cut tax rates: Here is the likely impact of tax rates for corporates being slashed by the Modi govt
Op IndiaConcerns on taxation front have persisted for a major part of the last two decades. In a joint article with Dr Surjit Bhalla for the Indian Express, we arrived at a figure of 22 per cent as the optimal level of the corporate tax rate. Recently, the Hon’ble minister lowered the tax rate to 22 per cent without the exemptions thereby taking India towards the optimal level that would maximize our corporate tax revenue. The fact that there’s a concessional rate of 15 per cent for new manufacturing companies is another move that is clearly looking at making India one of the most tax competitive countries in the region. The reduction in corporate tax rates without exemption is not less than a reform or at least a part of the larger direct tax reforms that will happen sometime over the next couple of years.