Breather for BPOs: Government withdraws contentious GST Circular on back office support services

Months after putting India’s business process outsourcing industry in a quandary, the government has withdrawn the circular that said anyone engaged in the facilitation of supply of goods/services will not be considered to be engaged in export and will now be considered as intermediary, unless it is on his own account. With this circular most BPO-KPO services were being treated as intermediaries u…