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Mint New Delhi
|December 08, 2025
It would be music to many ears that India's government is planning to overhaul its customs regime.
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The goal will not just be to ease compliance, but also bring down rates wherever they are higher than optimal, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday at the HT Leadership Summit 2025. The income tax regime's revisions may be an example of what to expect. Just as "faceless" assessments took arbitrary harassment
This story is from the December 08, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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