Andy Mukherjee, Columnist

Kafka Casts Terror on India's Angels

The nation's tax policy is a self-defeating folly that threatens to crush enterprise.
Photograph: Amith Nag Photography/Getty Images
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Foreign investors in India aren’t the only ones to be dealt a blow by the local tax authorities: Some startups have it worse.

Last week saw the reintroduction by New Delhi -- after a decade and a half -- of a long-term capital gains tax on equities.