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Taxation and industry experts cheer the potential withdrawal of retrospective tax
- The retrospective tax was introduced by late former president Pranab Mukherjee in 2012.
- It enabled the government to tax profits from earlier years even though they were not taxable at the time.
- The bill is yet to pass in the parliament, nonetheless, it has brought some cheer among industry and taxation experts.
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