The Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has recommended for almost all the key areas in the upcoming budget 2007-08. The recommendation of the chamber relating to both direct taxes as well as indirect taxes is as follows:
Reducing the corporate tax rates
Rendering tax incentives for the promotion of saving and investment of the country
Bringing all types of services under one tax nets
Larger public sector investments on infrastructure development
Restructuring both excise and custom duty structure
Some changes in Fringe Benefit Taxes
Special attention should be given on the development of world class infrastructure
Granting 100 percent tax holidays for 10 consecutive years to all industrial undertakings.
Providing cross subsidies to rail transport to be phased out
Subsidized pricing on oil and electricity should be phased out.
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Professor of Economics & Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. Founder & co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance.
Mario I. Blejer is a former governor of the Central Bank of Argentina and former Director of the Center for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England. Eduardo Levy Yeyati is Professor of Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution.
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