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Tax foreign tech giants operating in India, say RSS ideologues, Gandhian

The letter said tech giants such as Google, WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Amazon generated more than Rs 30 trillion from their Indian operations

K N Govindacharya
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K N Govindacharya

Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
Three Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologues, including K N Govindacharya, and a Gandhian have written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to levy taxes on foreign technology giants operating and making profits in India.
 
The two main demands in a representation sent to Sitharaman, a copy of Business Standard reviewed, are: Levying the goods and services tax “on all transactions of India user data by (tech company) parent or its subsidiary companies”, and “Indian office of the subsidiary company be treated as Permanent Establishment (PE) of the parent company for effective tax and corporate compliance”.
 
Apart from Govindacharya, who