Very interesting insight...yes...it does seem that this budget has put packaged software almost at par with customised software development (services) w.r.t. taxes.
I was a bit unsure if it would affect open source brands like Red Hat and Novell, since they sold service license with seemingly packaged software, but Amit Boraskar (at Red Hat) has clarified that Red Hat typically sells support services and hence pays service tax only. I am trying to talk to other OSS players (and some from the proprietary world too) to try and further update on this issue. Rahul, LFY -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nishant Sharma Sent: 29 February 2008 15:00 To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Subject: [ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008? Hi, I was just wondering if this budget is FOSS friendly indirectly. Excise duty on packaged softwares is raised to 12%. Now, considering most of the FOSS deployment in India is provided as a service either by individual consultants or companies, which invites a service tax of 12.5%. Any ideas? -N -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net Forgot the famous last words? Access your message archive online at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
