>>Most developing countries are at a high risk of capital flight by the rich and hence they regulate foreign exchange with Capital controls. India already has a cap of USD 250k limit on capital flight by individuals.
Anybody who owns a legitimate business in India has no reason to do this.
The only people in India who could do this are bribe makers, and the ecosystem around that. And those people already have means to not just park that money some where(many times outside India), but also whiten it at will.
The bribe makers already park money in gold, lands(in the names of relatives). In cities lots of Ola/Uber cars are owned by bribe makers and then they get some one from native places and get them to drive it for a share in profit. You will be surprised how that money is invested. Building a hospital/hotel? Put a word out, people invest in as little as a hotel/hospital room in return for some rent. There are even stories of people buying Green Cards for their siblings, relatives etc.
This is illegal collection. The legalised corruption goes really really deep. There's reason most government housing colony plots are generally owned by people who are in civil services or in some way connected to them.
Coming to capital flight. There was recently a number of ponzi schemes in Bangalore, in the name of Islamic Sharia investments. A number of firms came down, and investor money in literally thousands of crores was laundered. A famous one was called the 'IMA Scam'. The owner has luxury palaces in UAE, and apparently has gold in underground warehouse vaults outside India. He was arrested but is out on bail for medical reasons :)
When people say there is some $250K limit on these things I burst out of laughter. $250k, which around 2 crores is likely a single day bribe collection of a sub registrar office in anywhere in Bangalore.
>>This law will prevent capital flight by the rich which they earned with the patronage of Indian citizens and escape reinvestment locally
'The Rich' don't even get their money to India. The big businesses, including the big IT services firms, only get as much money to India as much as they need to run operations here. This is why every time the dollar gets stronger IT services firms get richer. So do the investors. Most of the business is run on rented campuses, and apart from the core businesses you contract most of your work to local companies. So it's not like the big businesses hoard a lot of money in INR.
Nobody is actually that stupid to legally bring their billions into a country from which they can only take $250K back.
Lastly the only reason I see, and I don't think its malice. But I think it's 'new tech phobia'. The established order of society doesn't like disruptive stuff. That's pretty much it. In 1980s there was once a Bharat Bandh called in India when Rajiv Gandhi introduced computers.
>Anybody who owns a legitimate business in India has no reason to do this.
Really? So none of the rich folks in India send their kids to college in the US or Europe? None of them own homes or boats or cars in those countries? They have no reason AT ALL to extract capital from India besides bribes?
While I won't even begin to try to claim India doesn't have a ton of issues socially, trying to claim anyone moving capital elsewhere made the money illegally seems like more than a bit of a stretch.
But your comment made no mention of scale. You said anyone moving money was participating in illegal activities. Now you're just trying to move the goal posts.
If you're going to make definitive statements like:
>Anybody who owns a legitimate business in India has no reason to do this.
>The only people in India who could do this are bribe makers, and the ecosystem around that
Then you better be prepared to back them up or apologize for making broad statements that you have no intention of standing behind.
Anybody who owns a legitimate business in India has no reason to do this.
The only people in India who could do this are bribe makers, and the ecosystem around that. And those people already have means to not just park that money some where(many times outside India), but also whiten it at will.
The bribe makers already park money in gold, lands(in the names of relatives). In cities lots of Ola/Uber cars are owned by bribe makers and then they get some one from native places and get them to drive it for a share in profit. You will be surprised how that money is invested. Building a hospital/hotel? Put a word out, people invest in as little as a hotel/hospital room in return for some rent. There are even stories of people buying Green Cards for their siblings, relatives etc.
This is illegal collection. The legalised corruption goes really really deep. There's reason most government housing colony plots are generally owned by people who are in civil services or in some way connected to them.
Coming to capital flight. There was recently a number of ponzi schemes in Bangalore, in the name of Islamic Sharia investments. A number of firms came down, and investor money in literally thousands of crores was laundered. A famous one was called the 'IMA Scam'. The owner has luxury palaces in UAE, and apparently has gold in underground warehouse vaults outside India. He was arrested but is out on bail for medical reasons :)
When people say there is some $250K limit on these things I burst out of laughter. $250k, which around 2 crores is likely a single day bribe collection of a sub registrar office in anywhere in Bangalore.
>>This law will prevent capital flight by the rich which they earned with the patronage of Indian citizens and escape reinvestment locally
'The Rich' don't even get their money to India. The big businesses, including the big IT services firms, only get as much money to India as much as they need to run operations here. This is why every time the dollar gets stronger IT services firms get richer. So do the investors. Most of the business is run on rented campuses, and apart from the core businesses you contract most of your work to local companies. So it's not like the big businesses hoard a lot of money in INR.
Nobody is actually that stupid to legally bring their billions into a country from which they can only take $250K back.
Lastly the only reason I see, and I don't think its malice. But I think it's 'new tech phobia'. The established order of society doesn't like disruptive stuff. That's pretty much it. In 1980s there was once a Bharat Bandh called in India when Rajiv Gandhi introduced computers.