TIOL-DDT 202 · Thursday, 15 September 2005 · story 8 of 8

Closing a Business

The time and cost required to resolve bankruptcies. In India, the process takes 10 years and costs 9% of the estate value. The recovery rate, expressed in terms of how many cents on the dollar claimants recover from the insolvent firm, is 12.82

Let us make a comparative study of three indicators, Starting a Business, Hiring and Firing Workers and Paying Taxes in India with China, Japan, Pakistan and USA, as per the report.

Country

Starting a Business

Procedures (number)

Time (days)

Cost (% of income per capita)

Min. capital (% of income per capita)

AVERAGE

10

35

21.0

204.4

China

13

48

13.6

946.7

India

11

71

61.7

0.0

Japan

11

31

10.7

75.3

Pakistan

11

24

18.6

0.0

United States

5

5

0.5

0.0

Country

Hiring and Firing Workers

Difficulty of Hiring Index

Rigidity of Hours Index

Difficulty of Firing Index

Rigidity of Employment Index

Hiring cost (% of salary)

Firing costs (weeks of wages)

AVERAGE

30

32

34

32

15.1

56.0

China

11

40

40

30

30.0

90.0

India

56

40

90

62

12.3

79.0

Japan

17

40

0

19

12.7

21.2

Pakistan

67

40

30

46

12.0

90.0

United States

0

0

10

3

8.5

0.0

Country

Paying Taxes

Payments (number)

Time (hours)

Total tax payable (% gross profit)

AVERAGE

32

409

40.7

China

34

584

46.9

India

59

264

43.2

Japan

26

315

34.6

Pakistan

32

560

57.4

United States

9

325

21.5

What are the Indian Communists complaining about?

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