From The Philippines, With Gratitude

March 24, 2012

India’s arbitrary policy environment has shifted IT and BPO jobs out of here, to more reasonable regimes

To

The Honorable Finance Minister of India

Dear sir,

I wish to introduce myself as the finance minister of the Philippines.

I am truly grateful for all the actions that your excellent ministry has been undertaking these past few years, which have helped the BPO industry in the Philippines a great deal. You may be aware that the Philippines BPO industry has been growing much faster than its Indian counterpart and is now all set to overtake the Indian industry, which till a decade ago was viewed by all of us with wonderment, awe and envy. We never dreamed that our country could be in the same league as India. But then we were earlier not well-informed about your income tax department ,the frequent and arbitrary changes in rules that emanate from this department and the vicious harassment of Indian IT and BPO industries which over the last several years has become a concerted strategy of this great department.

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