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Will Dr.Rajan wake up to the Exodus of SaaS Startups?

As an email addict, I'm only happy to have my credit card get charged automatically by Google (for extra storage) and Boomerang (a cute little Gmail management tool) - both US-based companies who (understandably for them, unfortunately for me) bill me in US Dollars. I wish we at Venture Intelligence could charge our customers the same way for accessing our database services . But thanks to the RBI, it looks like we can't - unless we re-incorporate in Singapore or Delaware, USA. As today's Economic Times article indicates, this combined with the 0% Capital Gains tax (on sale of shares in private companies) in Singapore just makes the proposition almost a no brainer and explains why so many of the venture capital-backed SaaS/Cloud-based businesses are rushing out. Software product companies are also stymied by a RBI mandate - meant to protect credit card users- that prevent companies from debiting money without the customer approving every transaction. Enterprise softw...