Indian minister reassures investors over tax concerns
New Delhi
INDIA's finance minister promised investors on Wednesday to resolve their tax concerns and reassured an increasingly sceptical business community that Asia's third-largest economy can withstand global market turbulence and China's slowdown.
Arun Jaitley's comments showed a marked increase in urgency after he at first dismissed China's currency devaluation and stockmarket crash last month as external events.
Fifteen months into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's term, officials are pushing hard to…
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