Date:02/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/02/stories/2006030203730400.htm

Back `Duty on software disappointing'

Our Bureau

Coimbatore, March 1

Niraj Kaushik, Country Manager, Trend Micro India, has expressed disappointment over the imposition of the 8 per cent excise duty on packaged software. This imposition, he said, would increase the price of the legal software.

`Software downloads from the Net would however come for free,' he said.