{"id":960475,"date":"2025-09-10T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960475"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:50:40","slug":"from-contracts-to-margins-how-trumps-25-outsourcing-tax-could-shake-indias-it-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/10\/from-contracts-to-margins-how-trumps-25-outsourcing-tax-could-shake-indias-it-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"From contracts to margins \u2013 How Trump\u2019s 25% \u2018outsourcing tax\u2019 could shake India\u2019s IT sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new legislative proposal in the US, which seeks to impose an additional tax burden on companies that outsource jobs overseas, has added a fresh layer of uncertainty for India\u2019s information technology (IT) services sector. The move could weaken two of the sector\u2019s biggest strengths \u2014 healthy order inflows and pricing stability. <\/p>\n<p>The Bill, tabled by a Republican senator, is yet to become a law, but even in its current form, it raises the prospect that US enterprises \u2014 the single-largest customer base for Indian IT majors \u2014 may revisit their technology budgets. Any such reconsideration could slow the momentum of contract closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new legislative proposal in the US, which seeks to impose an additional tax burden on companies that outsource jobs overseas, has added a fresh layer of uncertainty for India\u2019s information technology (IT) services sector. The move could weaken two of the sector\u2019s biggest strengths \u2014 healthy order inflows and pricing stability. The Bill, tabled by a Republican senator, is yet to become a law, but even in its current form, it raises the prospect that US enterprises \u2014 the single-largest customer base for Indian IT majors \u2014 may revisit their technology budgets. Any such reconsideration could slow the momentum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}