Prices set to raise on imported handsets

raksrules said:
Ok then explain why Govt increased tax or duty or whatever it is on set top box when it is forcing digitization of the cable in entire country ? It is simple. They want to milk each and every source of income. Increase duties and such on each and everything which is either in demand or is imposed as compulsory. Why only mobiles duty increased ? They see what is lower and what is being imported in large quantities and in order to milk that, increase duties. Shocked to see some people defending this corrupt government.
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Coz they are use to It...
Foolish Govt Run by some Nerds
 
blkrb0t said:
@Everyone, yes there are many points we can blame the government on, but increasing excise duty for imported mobiles is not the one at the moment. It actually benefits the Indian manufacturers to compete against the cheap Chinese mobiles coming in.

And they've reduced tax on other fronts which would boost the semiconductor industry in India. Overall, the hardware costs should reduce over the course of next few years.
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Tell me an Indian company that manufactures mobiles. i am not talking about the assembly plant. Nokia - Finland, Apple- US, Sammy - Korea, LG- Korea, Sharp - Japan. All micromax, Maxx, Videocon are rebranded chinese.
 
prices have been upped on current flag ship samsung devices. s3 and note 2 have been upped by 1.5k .Looks like its due to 6% tax proposed in budget?
 
raksrules said:
Ok then explain why Govt increased tax or duty or whatever it is on set top box when it is forcing digitization of the cable in entire country ? It is simple. They want to milk each and every source of income. Increase duties and such on each and everything which is either in demand or is imposed as compulsory. Why only mobiles duty increased ? They see what is lower and what is being imported in large quantities and in order to milk that, increase duties. Shocked to see some people defending this corrupt government.
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Govt is trying to curb the CAD. Without which India risks becoming the first of the BRICs to get relegated to junk status by the rating agencies. You are concentrating on just one aspect, try to look at the big picture.

Corrupt govt ? pls every govt is corrupt because we have to fund our democracy.

Democracy does not come for cheap.

If anything i would be in favour of legalising 'corruption' like in the US so we can get on with our lives. A good start would be to increase the money a candidate can legally raise to stand for office ie elections funding reform. It costs too much but the govt will not let you raise that money legally so the balance is what is known as 'corruption'. Real simple.

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gmano said:
Excise duty comes into effect from first of March, 2013. GOs passed for that purpose.
Union Budget - 2013-14 - CBEC
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You did not mention WHICH is the pertinent notification in there. After going through quite a few it seems to be notification 6/2013

6/2013 – CE Seeks to rescind notification No. 20/2011- CE, dated the 24th March, 2011 relating
to 1% excise duty on Mobile handsets including Cellular phones.
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Here is notificaiton 20/2011

How it goes from 1% to 6% is not clear.
 
sandeepsachin said:
^Cause its the least preferred color. Stock clearance by the distributors . red is cheaper at the physical stores too
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Wow big difference for just color, I never saw the red in the physical shops anywhere. Just white and some bluish thing.
Do people cover the phone with a protective casing or most use it just like that ?
 
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