{"id":989265,"date":"2026-02-02T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989265"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:05:50","slug":"unified-15-5-safe-harbour-margin-sets-for-it-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/unified-15-5-safe-harbour-margin-sets-for-it-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified 15.5% safe harbour margin sets for IT services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed to club various inter-connected sub-segments of IT, including software development services, IT-enabled services, knowledge process outsourcing services and others, under a single category with a common safe harbour margin of just 15.5 per cent, a move aimed at boosting India\u2019s attractiveness to tech giants across Europe and the US. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal, alongside other sweeteners, unveiled in the Union Budget \u2014 upping the threshold for IT services safe harbour to Rs 2,000 crore from Rs 300 crore,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed to club various inter-connected sub-segments of IT, including software development services, IT-enabled services, knowledge process outsourcing services and others, under a single category with a common safe harbour margin of just 15.5 per cent, a move aimed at boosting India\u2019s attractiveness to tech giants across Europe and the US. The proposal, alongside other sweeteners, unveiled in the Union Budget \u2014 upping the threshold for IT services safe harbour to Rs 2,000 crore from Rs 300 crore,<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989265","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=989265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}