India to tax / levy license fees on ISPs that offer VPNs

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at outblaze.com
Tue Nov 16 15:15:34 UTC 2004


http://www.india-gii.org/wiki/index.php/Position_Papers/VPN_Tax

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> From Www.india-gii.org
> 
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/923746.cms DoT to dash hopes of virtual private network ISPs MANOJ GAIROLA
> 
> TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2004 11:58:11 PM] NEW DELHI: Standalone ISPs, including Satyam Infoway, HCL, Global Telesystems and Estel will be hit by the new policy that imposes an entry fee of Rs 10 crore and an annual revenue share of 8% on gross revenue of ISPs providing virtual private network (VPN) services. 

A "crore" is 10 million, so this ridiculous "entry fee" is approx 2.2 
million dollars at current exchange rates..

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