News / India's logistics players ready to reap the rewards of simplified tax system

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Reforms to business taxes have drastically altered the outlook for India’s logistics sector, creating the greatest potential for growth among emerging markets.

This was the finding of Agility’s Emerging Markets Logistics Index 2017, which asked more than 800 industry executives to identify the country with the most potential for logistics growth.

Introduced on 1 July, the unified Goods and Service Tax (GST) removed the need for operators to pay levies when crossing from state to state – Agility noted this could cut costs for the logistics sector by ...