IT companies challenge government's plan to brand BPOs as brokers & GST in court

Mumbai: Are outsourcing units and BPOs merely intermediaries and brokers or are they exporters? About a week after the government released directions that Information Technology (IT) and Information Technology enabled Services (ITES) companies would attract 18 per cent goods and services tax (GST) for several exporters, some intermediaries have challenged the constitutional validity of such a regu…