Successful entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO, Paytm, has thoroughly examined the budget. He says, “It is a digital economy budget. Government has pushed the digital theme in every area of the budget.
Every person/ entity from small shops to consumers are getting pushed towards the digital economy. Tax benefits, incentives to use digital payments and extending loans based on a digital footprint will create a larger merchant ecosystem for digital payments. Incentives for labor intensive sectors including housing, farming and dairy will help SMEs create new jobs. Focus and attention to bank NPAs, as well as increasing bank capitalization is great step towards strengthening the financial system of the country. Finally, the income tax rate changes will encourage more people to report their incomes and create a larger tax net for the country. Overall, it is a great budget that will encourage people to move to the formal economy and derive benefits.”
To strengthen and regulate the digital economy, the Finance Minister has proposed to create a Payments Regulatory Board in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by replacing the existing Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement Systems.
Welcoming this move, Ramki Gaddipati, CTO & Co-Founder of Zeta, another digital payments company, says “It is encouraging to see that government is moving forward on payment system regulation. We hope the setting up of a separate payment regulatory board will help in improving interoperability and innovation. The Finance Minister also announced digital infra related measures and we hope all these steps will help more and more people joining the digital ecosystem. As expected Finance Minister made a formal announcement on the launch of Aadhaar Pay in today’s budget and I am confident that this will push digital payments to grassroots levels of the country.”
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