{"id":989283,"date":"2026-02-02T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989283"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:16:26","slug":"union-budget-govt-brings-it-services-under-single-category-boosts-tax-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/union-budget-govt-brings-it-services-under-single-category-boosts-tax-certainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget: Govt brings IT services under single category, boosts tax certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday highlighted India&#8217;s position as a global leader in software development services, IT-enabled services, knowledge process outsourcing and contract research and development. <\/p>\n<p>Presenting the Union Budget 2026-27 in Parliament today, Sitharaman announced that these segments will be brought under a single category named &#8220;Information Technology Services&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday highlighted India&#8217;s position as a global leader in software development services, IT-enabled services, knowledge process outsourcing and contract research and development. Presenting the Union Budget 2026-27 in Parliament today, Sitharaman announced that these segments will be brought under a single category named &#8220;Information Technology Services&#8221;.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989283","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=989283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}