AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoTax Policy Shake-Up: Philippine lawmakers filed a bill to scrap the domestic corporations’ minimum corporate income tax starting Jan. 1, 2027, aiming to stop forcing firms to pay based on gross income when margins are thin. Local Business Costs: Panvel Municipal Corporation deferred a ₹1.76-crore proposal to replace gas cremators after opposition questioned the pricing. E-commerce Credit Push: Flipkart launched “Pay Later” with PayU Finance, offering pay-in-30-days, “Pay in 3,” and EMIs at checkout across Flipkart, Myntra and Flipkart Minutes. AI Meets Payments: Mastercard pitched its agentic commerce strategy, saying cards should “prevail” in an agentic world as it reports stronger quarterly results. SME Support: Qatar’s commerce minister launched the national SME committee to expand access to finance, markets and knowledge. Corporate Learning Shift: A new push is underway to embed AI into workforce upskilling, with executives citing learning and development as a top AI use case. Commercial Real Estate & Governance: Pipestone approved a commercial tax abatement policy to attract new businesses, while India’s Supreme Court clarified IBC moratorium protection applies to the corporate debtor, not promoters or directors in consumer disputes.
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