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Textile excluded from industries

getting tax breaks

Advisor to Prime Minister on Commerce, Industry and competitive after the rupee’s devaluation and duty
Investment Abdul Razak Dawood, in a recent cuts, Dawood said, citing a 36% jump in quantity of
interview to Bloomberg, announced the garments shipments. “It means that we are getting
government’s plan to provide tax breaks for market share, we are taking somebody’s market
industries with export potential, however, the textile share.”
sector has been excluded from this incentive.
Dawood said, “I am in favor of limited time-bound
Dawood explicitly excluded the textile sector from the incentives,” indicating a three- to four-year period for
new tax incentive saying “they have gone to the point tax breaks. Engineering, chemicals, technology and
that it is a drug.”. He further said, “If we want to go to footwear are among the 20 sectors identified for
$100 billion or $200 billion exports like Malaysia or incentives, he said. Dawood said he saw outbound
Thailand, you aren’t goanna do it on textile.”
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