{"id":985772,"date":"2026-01-16T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985772"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:41:28","slug":"nasscom-bats-for-tax-clarity-in-upcoming-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/nasscom-bats-for-tax-clarity-in-upcoming-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasscom bats for tax clarity in upcoming budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s technology industry body Nasscom has urged the government to prioritise tax certainty for the digital economy in the Union Budget, flagging concerns around cloud infrastructure, cross-border digital taxation and employee compensation that it says are beginning to weigh on investment decisions. <\/p>\n<p>Cloud &amp; Digital Nexus <\/p>\n<p>At the top of its wishlist is clarity on the tax treatment of foreign cloud companies that use Indian data centres. Nasscom has warned that the current approach risks treating routine infrastructure usage as creating an additional tax exposure for overseas cloud service providers, even though Indian operators already pay tax on their margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s technology industry body Nasscom has urged the government to prioritise tax certainty for the digital economy in the Union Budget, flagging concerns around cloud infrastructure, cross-border digital taxation and employee compensation that it says are beginning to weigh on investment decisions. Cloud &amp; Digital Nexus At the top of its wishlist is clarity on the tax treatment of foreign cloud companies that use Indian data centres. Nasscom has warned that the current approach risks treating routine infrastructure usage as creating an additional tax exposure for overseas cloud service providers, even though Indian operators already pay tax on their margins.<\/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-985772","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\/985772","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=985772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}