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Telecommunications
The right ring
THE telecom sector continues to enjoy sunrise status. A flurry of proposals such as
Continuation of the tax holiday benefits under Section 80IA.
Exemption from customs duty for specified telecom equipment (which includes base stations), when imported by telecom service providers, has been continued without any time limit.
Import tariffs on mobile handsets to be lower by 1 per cent (subject to the latest additional customs duty levy of 4 per cent).
Removal of mobile phones from the one-in-six criterion for income-tax.
These proposals are likely to augur well for companies such as Bharti Tele-Ventures, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra).
Krishnan Thiagarajan
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