ease of doing business to «unease in doing business». Ahead of the Union Budget, the opposition party said that to fix this, the upcoming budget must eliminate «raid raj and tax terrorism».
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It also called on the government to take action to protect Indian manufacturing jobs and take decisive action to shore up wages and purchasing power.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the Modi government has long proclaimed its desire to improve the «ease of doing business» in India but yet in the past decade «we have only seen an easing of private investment which has fallen to record lows and the easing out of businesspersons who have departed India in large numbers for foreign shores».
«A byzantine, punitive, and arbitrary tax regime covering both GST and income tax — which amounts to sheer Tax Terrorism -is now the greatest threat to India's prosperity and has contributed to an 'unease of doing business',» he said in a statement.
The biggest component of investment — private domestic investment has been weak since 2014, Ramesh said, adding that it was solidly in the 25-30 per cent of GDP range during Manmohan Singh's tenure as PM.
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