A series of announcements in recent weeks aims to streamline tax collection in a country where the tax-to-GDP ratio, at 16.6 percent, is among the lowest among emerging economies. Only about one in 18 earning individuals pays tax.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Sajjan Jindal, MD, JSW Steel, said that JSW Energy has placed its expansion plans on hold and eyes organic growth.
Providing comfort to worried foreign investors, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the Income Tax Department will not re-open cases where assessment proceedings had been finalised before April 1, 2012.